cookroom

English

Etymology

From 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.

References

• “cookroom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.