A room in which cooking is done, a kitchen; a. on board a ship, the galley; b. a separate building or outhouse, COOK-HOUSE.
1553. S. Cabot, Ordinances, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 260. The cooke roome and all other places to be kept cleane.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 12. The Cooke-roome … commonly in Merchantmen it is in the Fore-Castle.
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. xlvii. There are no chimneys or fire-places … but in the Cook-room. This word is used to signify their kitchen.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Coqueron, the cook-room … or cuddy, of a lighter or hoy.
1818. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, I. I. i. 6. All the vessels of his table silver, and many of those of his cook-room.
fig. 1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 95. Passe along vnto the stomacke, the Cookeroome, where Diet is the Steward, Appetite the Clark, and Concoction the maister Cooke.
