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scullery |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scullery \Scul"ler*y\, n.; pl {Sculleries}. [Probably originally, a place for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr OE swilen to wash, AS swilian (see {Swill} to wash, to drink), but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle or by OF escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr escuele a dish, F. ['e]cuelle, fr L. scutella a salver, waiter (cf. {Scuttle} a basket); or perhaps the English word is immediately from the OF escuelier cf OE 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. [Obs.] --Gauden. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: scullery n : a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done
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