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Word Meanings - SCULLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian , but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle, or by OF. escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr. escuele a dish, F. écuelle, fr. L. scutella a salver, waiter

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for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian , but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle, or by OF. escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr. escuele a dish, F. écuelle, fr. L. scutella a salver, waiter ; or perhaps the English word is 1. A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen. 2. Hence, refuse; fifth; offal. auden.

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