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verb

Cook v. t. To throw. (Prov.Eng.) "Cook me that ball."

Cook v. t. (past & past part. cooked; pres. part. cooking)

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account. (Colloq.) "They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different."

Cook v. i. To make the noise of the cuckoo. (Obs. or R.) "Constant cuckoos cook on every side."

Cook v. i. To prepare food for the table.

noun

Cook n.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

(Zool.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

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"Cook" Quotes from Famous Books

... greater comfort by adopting something of our civilization. You might improve your dwellings, hangings round your walls would keep out the bitter winds, well made doors are in winter very preferable to the skins which hang at your entrance, and I do think that a Carthaginian cook might, with advantage, give lessons to the tribes as to preparations of food; but beyond that I think that you have the best ...

— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty

... to Leavenworth, find Cook, and have him plant what you have. Haight will go to Chicago and know what to do, while I—well- -I am going south for ...

— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton

... after tea, to the De Witts and Prentices, and send Thomas with a note to the Lowders. Sophie has done her part in shorter time than that, very often; and I don't believe we should be starved, if she only gave half an hour's notice to the cook." ...

— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris

... satisfactorily two of the following dishes as may be directed: Porridge, bacon, hunter's stew; or skin and cook a rabbit or pluck and cook a bird. Also "make a damper" of half a pound of flour or a "twist" baked on ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... of Pineville on Rainbow River, and Daddy Bunker's real estate office was about a mile from his home. Besides the family of the six little Bunkers and their father and mother, there was Norah O'Grady, the cook, and there was also Jerry Simms, the man who cut the grass, cleaned the automobile, and sprinkled the lawn in summer and took ashes out of the furnace ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's • Laura Lee Hope

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