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Webster 1913 Edition
Scullery
Scul′ler-y
(skŭl′lẽr-y̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Sculleries
(skŭl′lẽr-ĭz)
. [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. écuelle
, 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scullery
SCULL'ERY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
scullery
scullery
English
Noun
scullery (plural sculleries)
- (historical) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
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Translations
room, next to a kitchen
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