[f. COOK sb. + -SHIP.] The position or function of a cook.
1826. B. Barton, Select. (1849), 6. ’T would be cook-ship versus Quaker-ship.
1857. Hampshire Telegraph, etc., 24 Jan., 3/6. Sometimes it will please his cookship to go through a light-hearted bit of legerdemain with two stewpans.
