cookery

The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.countableuncountable

• Henry was not very good at cookery and most of his meals ended up burned.

A delicacy; a dainty.countableobsoleteuncountable

• I've got a bit of cookery that will astonish him — my marinated pheasants' poults a la braise imperiale.

Cooking tools or apparatus.archaiccountableuncountable

• She directed the servants, inspected both the cookery and arrangements of the table, held council with an old steward...
• ...and would not be just dead weight, as on the trail it could conveniently be filled with the cookery and other odds and ends...

A place where cooking is done.archaiccountableuncountable

• Mr. Weller produced upon the little dining-table, a roast leg of mutton and an enormous meat-pie, with sundry dishes of vegetables, and pots of porter, which stood upon the chairs or the sofa bedstead, or where they could, everybody felt di

Obsolete form of kukri.alt-ofobsolete