Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A room for cookery; a kitchen; in ships, a galley or caboose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A kitchen or room for cookery.
  • noun The galley or caboose of a ship.

Etymologies

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cook +‎ room

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Examples

  • Get a glimpse inside the cookroom with these videos on creating the magazine's best recipes — and take the tips on how to make spiced milk tea or how to use a pressure cooker!

    The Cubicle Queue: Vintage Gaga, backstage at Gourmet, and more! 2009

  • Get a glimpse inside the cookroom with these videos on creating the magazine's best recipes — and take the tips on how to make spiced milk tea or how to use a pressure cooker!

    The Cubicle Queue: Vintage Gaga, backstage at Gourmet, and more! 2009

  • Get a glimpse inside the cookroom with these videos on creating the magazine's best recipes — and take the tips on how to make spiced milk tea or how to use a pressure cooker!

    The Cubicle Queue: Vintage Gaga, backstage at Gourmet, and more! 2009

  • But when Babaji, with pardonable pride, was showing me round the completed house, he told me that he had decided to retain the two cottages; they would be useful as cookroom and storeroom; besides, they had been built by his father, and so out of respect to his memory he would wait till they fell down of themselves.

    India and the Indians Edward Fenton Elwin

  • "Cripes!" cried Jimmie, and he was away in a second, attacking the great dish of pork and beans which stood on the table in the cookroom.

    Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam 1909

  • After this I went on board; but the first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cookroom, or forecastle of the ship, with their arms fast about one another.

    Robinson Crusoe 1895

  • After this I went on board; but the first sight I met with was two men drowned in the cookroom, or forecastle of the ship, with their arms fast about one another.

    Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895

  • The cookroom had no end of bins, lockers and drawers to contain the variety of provisions and stores necessary to get up a dinner for the skipper and his guests, when he had any.

    Within The Enemy's Lines Oliver Optic 1859

  • a peacock with spread wings, a fish, cuckoo, scorpion, a child's doll, a sieve, a pattern of Sita's cookroom and representations of all female ornaments.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

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