Kitchen
Kitchen (kich"en) , noun
[Old English kichen, kichene, kuchene, Anglo-Saxon cycene, Latin coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, from coquinus pertaining to cooking, from coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and compare Cuisine.]
1.
A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery.
Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot.
A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
2.
A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
3.
The staff that works in a kitchen.
Collocations (3)
Kitchen garden , See under Garden.
Kitchen lee , dirty soapsuds. [Obsolete] A brazen tub of kitchen lee.
Kitchen stuff , fat collected from pots and pans. — Donne
Kitchen , transitive verb
To furnish food to; to entertain with the fare of the kitchen. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare