单词 | cookship |
释义 | cookshipn. Now rare. The position, role, or office of a cook. ΚΠ 1554 Lease 17 Mar. in C. S. Knighton Acts Dean & Chapter of Westm., 1543–1609: Pt. 1 (1997) 84 Richard Whit shall have a patent of one of the cookship, the same to be delyvered to him at Mr Deanes pleasure. 1826 B. Barton Let. 16 Feb. in Mem., Lett., & Poems (1849) 48 Suppose an avalanche of soot to plump down the chimney the first gala-day—'t would be cook-ship versus Quaker-ship, whether the poor body kept her sectarian serenity unruffled. 1860 E. T. Gastineau Hobble through Channel Islands vi. 181 Hobbler abdicated his position and resigned his cookship. 1926 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 17 July 21/1 She did not try to make the vegetable-maid job a stepping-stone to her coveted cookship. 1987 C. Peters Thackeray's Universe ii. 30 The cookship at Trinity was said to be worth quite as much as the Mastership. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1554 |
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