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cook-shack † 
n. in a work camp, a building where cooking is done and meals are served.
See also: cookhouse
- 1912 (1914) [Being] kept waiting for their dinner . . . is a most unpardonable offence in their eyes, and they were ready to pull down the cook-shack over his ears.
- 1965 And at Spartan's bleak Pelly Bay camp in the Canadian Arctic, a bushed cook arose from bed one midnight, purposefully set about frying every single egg in the stores, and then nailed them all, sunnyside up, to the cookshack wall.
- 1912 (1914) [Being] kept waiting for their dinner . . . is a most unpardonable offence in their eyes, and they were ready to pull down the cook-shack over his ears.