cookroom

cookroom

English

Etymology

cook +‎ room

Noun

cookroom (plural cookrooms)

1. (India, historical) A kitchen or room for cookery.
   • 1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India (page 553)

     […] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.

2. The galley or caboose of a ship.
   • c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service

     […] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cookroom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)