kitchener
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See also: Kitchener
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English kichenere, kychynnere, equivalent to kitchen + -er.
Noun[edit]
kitchener (plural kitcheners)
- (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- The industry of all crafts has paused; — except it be the smith's, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener's, cooking off-hand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].
- (obsolete) A stove for cooking.
References[edit]
- “kitchener”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.