cook-house
[f. cook v.1 + house: cf. bakehouse.]
A building or room in which cooking is done; a detached out-door kitchen in warm countries; the cook-room on board a ship.
| 1795 Hull Advertiser 8 Aug. 3/2 Fire broke out in the cook house, on board the Nelly. 1875 I. L. Bird Sandwich Isl. (1880) 58 A small eating-room with a grass cookhouse beyond. 1890 Daily News 20 Nov. 7/1 ‘The Rookery’ at Wellington Barracks is perfectly unsanitary, a portion of it being over the cook-house. |