[f. COOK v.1 + HOUSE: cf. bake-house.] A building or room in which cooking is done; a detached out-door kitchen in warm countries; the COOK-ROOM on board a ship.
1795. Hull Advertiser, 8 Aug., 3/2. Fire broke out in the cook house, on board the Nelly.
1875. Miss Bird, Sandwich Isl. (1880), 58. A small eating-room with a grass cookhouse beyond.
1890. Daily News, 20 Nov., 7/1. ‘The Rookery’ at Wellington Barracks is perfectly unsanitary, a portion of it being over the cook-house.
