DCHP-1 Online

cookhouse

• n. in a work camp, a building where cooking is done and meals are served.

  See also: cook-shack  cook-shed  grub camp  grub-house  

  • 1904  The cook was in the cook-house, rattling tins.
  • 1942  The cookhouse, perhaps thirty by seventy feet, was full of crude long tables and benches. . . .
  • 1959  We have a considerable quantity of new cook house utensils suitable for a bush camp.