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cookery 
1 n. in work camps, a place where meals are cooked and eaten; cookhouse; kitchen.
- 1748 This Part . . . called the Plantation, is separated from the Factory by two Rows of High Palissades, between the first of which and the second, are Store-Houses, the Cookery, and some Work-shops, low-built, and so placed as they would be of little Service to an Enemy to cover an Attack of the Place.
- 1854 The raft being ready, all hands, with provisions, cook and cookery, are embarked. . . .
- 1964 I suppose it is partly to . . . get the meal over with quickly so the cookery staff can get on with the dish-washing.
2 n. the rendering plant on board a whaling ship.
- 1954 You have to be a good man born with fins to have a job in a hunting ship, and on the voyage home they are like kings to the mess-boys and butchers and lemmers and flensers and the others who work in the cookery.
- 1748 This Part . . . called the Plantation, is separated from the Factory by two Rows of High Palissades, between the first of which and the second, are Store-Houses, the Cookery, and some Work-shops, low-built, and so placed as they would be of little Service to an Enemy to cover an Attack of the Place.