scullery

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A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done

With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.

{n} a place to wash and keep things in
A scullery is a small room next to a kitchen where washing and other household tasks are done. sculleries a room next to the kitchen in a large house, where cleaning jobs were done in past times
Hence, refuse; fifth; offal
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
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
{i} area or room for washing dishes and performing messy tasks (British)
scullery maid
A domestic servant, of lowest status, whose job is to wash dishes and do other menial chores
scullery

    Hyphenation

    scul·le·ry

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    Etymology

    [ 'sk&-l&-rE, 'sk&l- ] (noun.) 15th century. From Old English, but probably influenced by Old Norse skola (“to wash”) (> Danish skylle, Icelandic skyla) in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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