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- noun Plural form of
cookhouse .
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Examples
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Ample accommodations in the two cookhouses where British personnel does the cooking under German supervision.
Work Camp 107 GW 2010
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It consists of nine sleeping and living barracks, one barrack used for infirmary and Red Cross parcel store-room, two cookhouses with adjoining dining rooms, two washhouses, and two huts with latrines.
Work Camp 107 GW 2010
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[Utah Construction] Co. and its two pimps, Morrison & Knudsen and Betchel & Keyser [sic] ... notorious for their low wages, rotten camp conditions and belly-robbing cookhouses; not to mention unsafe equipment and an unequaled collection of petty slave drivers.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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[Utah Construction] Co. and its two pimps, Morrison & Knudsen and Betchel & Keyser [sic] ... notorious for their low wages, rotten camp conditions and belly-robbing cookhouses; not to mention unsafe equipment and an unequaled collection of petty slave drivers.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Better than what came out of most barracks cookhouses.
Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001
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At the turn of the century, South Rockingham was all ranchland, flat fields planted to beans and walnuts, harvested by itinerant crews who traveled with steam engines, cookhouses, and bedroll wagons.
I is for Innocent Grafton, Sue 1992
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At nights around the fire in logging camp cookhouses, songs and tall tales abounded.
The Frozen Logger James Stevens 1970
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At nights around the fire in logging camp cookhouses, songs and tall tales abounded.
The Frozen Logger James Stevens 1970
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Most of the laborers were exhausted, hauling the huge trailers with the stumps of trees that were dug with so much labor out of the swamps, destined for the camp cookhouses.
King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962
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There were still two days 'rations in the store hut and cookhouses, and there was cooked food, and the flies swarmed and nothing had changed.
King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962
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