Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building or room, whether detached from a house or attached to it, in which cooking is carried on.
- noun An erection on a ship's deck for containing the caboose or cooking apparatus; the galley.
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Examples
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A new cook-house is just being finished at will be at the camp's disposal in a few days.
Work Camp 11072 GW 2010
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"They're massing up at the cook-house," was his report.
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To save them from the vengeance of the blacks, they were guarded in the cook-house for the night.
Chapter 7 2010
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Agnes had joked with Frances that if she were to die, she did not want to be buried far away in the missionary burial ground; Make sure they bury me under that tree by the cook-house, she had said to Frances, little knowing that before long she would be critically ill with malaria.
Archive 2007-01-01 Belinda 2007
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She heard Frances and she was arguing with someone--insisting that if Agnes died, she was going to be buried under the tree by the cook-house.
Archive 2007-01-01 Belinda 2007
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Now it is supposed that Fanny has outwitted her; she grins behind broad planks in what was once the cook-house.
Vailima Letters 2005
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We met two boys carrying pigs, and saw six young men busy cooking in a cook-house; but no sign of an assembly; no arms, no blackened faces.
Vailima Letters 2005
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She is a wild pig; far handsomer than any tame; and when she found the cook-house was too much for her methods of evasion, she lay down on the floor and refused food and drink for a whole Sunday.
Vailima Letters 2005
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The boys in the cook-house were all out at the cook-house door, where we could see them looking in and smiling.
Vailima Letters 2005
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This is our weak point; we are ashamed of Helen; the cook-house blushes for her; they murmur there at her presence.
Vailima Letters 2005
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