ˈcook-room
A room in which cooking is done, a kitchen; a. on board a ship, the galley (in later use N. Amer.); b. a separate building or outhouse, cook-house.
| 1553 S. Cabot Ordinances in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 260 The cooke roome and all other places to be kept cleane. 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 12 The Cooke-roome..commonly in Merchantmen it is in the Fore-Castle. 1707 Sloane Jamaica I. xlvii, There are no chimneys or fire⁓places..but in the Cook-room. This word is used to signify their kitchen. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Coqueron, the cook-room..or cuddy, of a lighter or hoy. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India I. i. i. 6 All the vessels of his table silver, and many of those of his cook-room. 1874 Rep. Vermont Board Agric. II. 509 The cook room, which is one of the utmost importance, should be one of great convenience. 1880 Tourgée Invis. Empire x. 467 There were four rooms,..a cook-room, dining room [etc.]. 1896 J. C. Harris Sister Jane 54, I made haste to go to the cook-room, intending to start the fire. 1964 Newfoundland Q. Summer 15/1 Also with a large enough lot of non-resident hands, there would be a ‘cook room’. |
| fig. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 95 Passe along vnto the stomacke, the Cookeroome, where Diet is the Steward, Appetite the Clark, and Concoction the maister Cooke. |