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cookhouse

/kook-hous/US // ˈkʊkˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈkʊkˌhaʊs) //

烹调室,饭堂,炊事班,饭馆

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cook·hous·es [kook-hou-ziz]. /ˈkʊkˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a building or place for cooking, especially a camp kitchen.

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Examples

  • We endeavoured to get cookhouse jobs for the pickings to be had, but could not do so.

  • I found him, as I expected, hanging round the cookhouse, and taxed him with his neglect of duty.

  • Before each meal I would run to the cookhouse before they ran out of hot water, and run back before it got cold.

  • We saw the wagon coming and all rushed down to the cookhouse to climb up and look in the wagon.

  • Once a day they gave each of us a cup of soup which was all that they prepared in the cookhouse at this camp.