Crossword clues for cookhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A small house where cooking takes place; a kitchen house.
WordNet
n. the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley, ship's galley, caboose]
a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking; "the circus used a tent as their cookhouse"
Wikipedia
Cookhouse is a small village located in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, some north of Port Elizabeth and east of Somerset East, on the west bank of the Great Fish River, which formed the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony until 1819.
It is said to take its name from a small stone house used for shelter and cooking by troops camping on the bank of this river. Another explanation links the name to the hot climate as experienced by the troops stationed there.
In the 1870s, the government of Prime Minister John Molteno oversaw a massive expansion of the Cape Colony's railway system, and a route northwards to De Aar from Port Elizabeth and Port Alfred was chosen by the Cape Government Railways to pass through what is now Cookhouse. A station was built here the town formed around this connection. Cookhouse was an important railway junction.
Usage examples of "cookhouse".
At the turn of the century, South Rockingham was all ranchland, flat fields planted to beans and walnuts, harvested by itinerant crews who traveled with steam engines, cookhouses, and bedroll wagons.
One did not get any more gyrations or obtain them any sooner by this, but it was a relief, and a change to walk the half square outside the prison to the cookhouse, and help carry the rations back.
One of us would go to the cookhouse in a Range Rover and pick up some tea in Norwegians and the packed lunches-brown paper bags that contained a typical school lunch of soggy rolls, Yorkie bar, and crisps.
The workers had returned from the bush, and smoke went up from the cookhouses of the little settlement.
The Rebel Masons interested themselves in securing details outside the Stockade in the cookhouse, the commissary, and elsewhere, for the brethren among the prisoners who would accept such favors.
Hearing that language, his mother comes a-running from the cookhouse and whaps his head with her wood ladle.
The atmosphere inside the main base was very smoky, and at any time of night or day I could smell the odor of egg banjos (fried egg sandwiches) and chips coming from the cookhouse.
This one wanted to send me a daily newsletter from Washington, all inside stuff, straight from the cookhouse.