Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An erection on a ship's deck for containing the caboose or cooking apparatus; the galley.
  • noun A building or room, whether detached from a house or attached to it, in which cooking is carried on.

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Examples

  • A new cook-house is just being finished at will be at the camp's disposal in a few days.

    Work Camp 11072 GW 2010

  • "They're massing up at the cook-house," was his report.

    THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS 2010

  • To save them from the vengeance of the blacks, they were guarded in the cook-house for the night.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • Agnes had joked with Frances that if she were to die, she did not want to be buried far away in the missionary burial ground; Make sure they bury me under that tree by the cook-house, she had said to Frances, little knowing that before long she would be critically ill with malaria.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Belinda 2007

  • She heard Frances and she was arguing with someone--insisting that if Agnes died, she was going to be buried under the tree by the cook-house.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Belinda 2007

  • Now it is supposed that Fanny has outwitted her; she grins behind broad planks in what was once the cook-house.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • We met two boys carrying pigs, and saw six young men busy cooking in a cook-house; but no sign of an assembly; no arms, no blackened faces.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • She is a wild pig; far handsomer than any tame; and when she found the cook-house was too much for her methods of evasion, she lay down on the floor and refused food and drink for a whole Sunday.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • The boys in the cook-house were all out at the cook-house door, where we could see them looking in and smiling.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • This is our weak point; we are ashamed of Helen; the cook-house blushes for her; they murmur there at her presence.

    Vailima Letters 2005

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