A cook; esp. an assistant to the cook in a camp.
Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Who got the meals? Speaker: Um, th-- there'd be a cook and two cookees, a cookee he baked- baked the bread and- and uh, done the cooking of the meat and the beans an- and he- thee- would make pies and cookies and then the cookees they were- they were uh, responsible for putting on the- the food onto the tables and washing up the dishes- |
A cook; esp. an assistant to the cook in a camp. |
Speaker: No, they didn't have uh, they heated their water on the stove. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What in? Speaker: In big um, big uh, vessels I- I- not familiar too much with the- with the cookery. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Not- not being a- a cook. Interviewer: No.Speaker: Or not being a cookee. Interviewer: N-- of course you wouldn't be too familiar with that. Speaker: No. |
A cook; esp. an assistant to the cook in a camp. |
Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Did you ever hear about how things went on in the camps? Speaker: (sighs) Yeah, they had the bunkhouses and the cookhouse, they always have a cookhouse and it had bunkhouse and they'd hire a cook and maybe a cookee and they would be up at six in the morning and out on the road in the bush at seven, take their lunch with them, come back at six and have supper after six. Same thing in the saw mills in the summer time. |
A cook; esp. an assistant to the cook in a camp. |