Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building used for cooking, as at a camp.
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- noun A small
house wherecooking takes place; akitchen house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the area for food preparation on a ship
- noun a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking
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Examples
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When "cookhouse" went we straightened our backs, got _some_ of the mud off our boots, and proceeded to take what the gods (in this case the quartermaster) were good enough to give us.
The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 Fred W. Ward
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The Works Director agrees with the proposition of the Delegate to build a little cookhouse for the
Work Camp 956 GW 2010
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The Junior Rangers are having a summer camp but during the first night of the camp there is a serious fire where the cookhouse is demolished and other buildings are damaged.
Reviews 2010
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constables girlfriend for a bear.
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving: Book summary 2010
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The Junior Rangers are having a summer camp but during the first night of the camp there is a serious fire where the cookhouse is demolished and other buildings are damaged.
Books 2010
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The camp consists of 6 sleeping and living barracks, 1 hospital barrack now partly used as sleeping quarters, 1 temporary cookhouse with adjoining washhouse and latrine, 1 bath and washhouse combined with another latrine, 1 magazine and 1 large cookhouse with adjoining mess-hall, under construction.
Work Camp 95 GW 2010
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At a conference with the works 'representative all questions with regard to the new hospital, new cookhouse and mess hall, food and cooking, working hours, sports ground and entertainments had been fully discussed.
Work Camp 95 GW 2010
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They weren't meant to look too closely at the subtext, duck into the alleyway or the authentic cookhouse on route, or some red light backstage dressing room where she sat half-undressed in front of a mirror, all shallow breath and heaving breasts, rouge, heart on sleeve.
Unwritten Alison Wells 2012
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Being the first for duty, I sustained a shock when the lighting was suddenly resumed and I was bathed in brilliant light from the cookhouse.
Work Camp 10196 L 2010
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The Junior Rangers are having a summer camp but during the first night of the camp there is a serious fire where the cookhouse is demolished and other buildings are damaged.
Selections 2010
bilby commented on the word cookhouse
"I lit up a cigarette and lay back. Mind a blank. The guns roar, the night comes. Grapevine message, 'Dinner', across the field with mess-tins, I am walking on a field that has been laying fallow for a few years. One still feels the furrows where the plough once moved. In the corner of the field under some walnut trees, a heavily camouflaged cookhouse is operating, and by the screams they are operating without an anaesthetic."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
April 18, 2009