What is "kitchen lee"

Kitchen \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]

1. A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.

   Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
   --Dryden.

   A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
   --Franklin.

2. A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.

3. The staff that works in a kitchen.

   Kitchen garden. See under Garden.

   Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] ``A brazen tub of kitchen lee.''
   --Ford.

   Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans.
   --Donne.