1. plural of cookhouse; buildings or rooms used for cooking, especially in camps, military installations, or outdoor settings

Examples

• The military base had several cookhouses to feed all the soldiers.
• Workers at the logging camp gathered at the cookhouses for their meals.
• The expedition set up temporary cookhouses near their research station.
• Old mining towns often had communal cookhouses for the workers.
• The summer camp’s cookhouses were busy preparing meals for hundreds of children.
• Historical cookhouses at the fort have been preserved as museum exhibits.