kitchener

See also: Kitchener

English

Etymology

kitchen +‎ -er

Noun

kitchener (plural kitcheners)

1. (obsolete) A kitchen servant; a cook.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     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].

2. (obsolete) A stove for cooking.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “kitchener”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rethicken, thickener