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Cookhouse

noun
1.
The area for food preparation on a ship.  Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley.
2.
A detached or outdoor shelter for cooking.





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"Cookhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... fewer than twenty-nine corpses of tribesmen were found round the cookhouse, and in the open space over which the three charges had taken place. This, when it is remembered that perhaps twice as many had been wounded and had crawled away, enables an estimate to be formed of the desperate nature of the ...
— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill
... to the adjoining portion of the double building, and, keys having been secured, the rapidity of their search increased. Into the twin courtyard they filed; then while some investigated the cookhouse others climbed to the topmost tier of cells. As the quest narrowed, six of the Sicilians, who had lain concealed in a compartment on the first floor, broke out in a desperate endeavor to escape, but they were caught between the opposing ranks, ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... no sooner out of my mouth than a shell shrieking into our own cookhouse, drove us like ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... lecture. Mr. Moss had just finished explaining the three kinds of sights that could be taken, when he asked the funny man, "What is a fine sight?" and Deegan answered, "It's a good roast of beef coming from the cookhouse, sir." The company was then dismissed amid ...
— A Soldier's Life - Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle • Edwin G. Rundle
... moment, for I have happened to be orderly officer once or twice lately; in other words I have been a sort of detective housekeeper. The first thing I have to do is to see that everybody gets up at reveille—a charity, Charles, which has to begin at home. But it is at the cookhouse that I am supposed to have my most deadly effect. You can see me paying visits en surprise, all the cooks springing to attention and the very potatoes in the dixies trying to look as if they weren't doing anything wrong! The pleasing ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 • Various


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