kitchener
nounEtymology From Middle English kichenere, kychynnere, equivalent to kitchen + -er.
1
Obsolete A kitchen servant; a cook.
- The industry of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith's, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener's, cooking offhand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Give Us Arms”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 179:
2
Obsolete A stove for cooking.