DCHP-1 Online
cookery crib Hist. 
a strongly built raft for accommodating the cook's caboose (def. lb), gear, and supplies, used for preparing meals during a timber drive.
See also: caboose (def. 1b)
- 1883 If you can manage to get on the "cookery crib," which carries all the provisions and cooking utensils, then you may consider yourself quite safe, as it is constructed with all the skill and care that the most experienced raftsmen can bestow.
- 1933 How long . . . since they had left behind the jolly river drivers, the gay cookery cribs. . . .
- 1883 If you can manage to get on the "cookery crib," which carries all the provisions and cooking utensils, then you may consider yourself quite safe, as it is constructed with all the skill and care that the most experienced raftsmen can bestow.