DCHP-3

cookery

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

in work camps, a place where meals are cooked and eaten; cookhouse; kitchen.

Quotations

1748
This Part . . . called the Plantation, is separated from the Factory by two Rows of High Palissades, between the first of which and the second, are Store-Houses, the Cookery, and some Work-shops, low-built, and so placed as they would be of little Service to an Enemy to cover an Attack of the Place.
1854
The raft being ready, all hands, with provisions, cook and cookery, are embarked. . . .
1964
I suppose it is partly to . . . get the meal over with quickly so the cookery staff can get on with the dish-washing.
2n.

the rendering plant on board a whaling ship.

Quotations

1954
You have to be a good man born with fins to have a job in a hunting ship, and on the voyage home they are like kings to the mess-boys and butchers and lemmers and flensers and the others who work in the cookery.