cookroom

noun — 2 senses

cookroom

noun

Etymology From cook + room.

1

India, Historical A kitchen or room for cookery.

  • […] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553:
2

The galley or caboose of a ship.

  • […] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service:
Related terms
cookery, cookhouse

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