cookhouse

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in a work camp, a building where cooking is done and meals are served.

Quotations

1904

The cook was in the cook-house, rattling tins.

1942

The cookhouse, perhaps thirty by seventy feet, was full of crude long tables and benches. . . .

1959

We have a considerable quantity of new cook house utensils suitable for a bush camp.