Word Meanings - COOKROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.

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• CABOOSE
  A house on deck, where the cooking is done; -- commonly called the galley. (more info) G. kabuse a little room or hut. The First part of the word seems to
• KITCHEN MIDDENS
  Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
• GALLEY-WORM
  A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or "thousand legs." See Chilognatha.
• KITCHEN
  coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden.
• KITCHEN-RY
  The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland.
• KITCHENETTE
  A room combining a very small kitchen and a pantry, with the kitchen conveniences compactly arranged, sometimes so that they fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.
• KITCHENMAID
  A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak.
• GALLEY-BIRD
  The European green woodpecker; also, the spotted woodpecker.
• KITCHENER
  A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.
• COOKERY
  1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat. 2. A delicacy; a dainty. R. North.
• GALLEY
  A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; as: A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels