Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scullery

Scullery (skul"lẽr*y) , noun

[Probably originally, a place for washing dishes, and for swillery, from Old English swilen to wash, Anglo-Saxon swilian (see Swill to wash, to drink), but influenced either by Icelandic skola, skyla, Danish skylle, or by Old French escuelier a place for keeping dishes, from escuele a dish, French écuelle, from Latin scutella a salver, waiter (compare Scuttle a basket); or perhaps the English word is immediately from the Old French escuelier; compare Old English squyllare a dishwasher.]

1.
A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.
2.
Hence, refuse; filth; offal. [Obsolete] — Gauden