scullery

«scullery» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: back kitchen — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

back kitchen

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

A small room behind the kitchen where dishes and pots are washed and rough work is done. tree →

how it differs from today

Today it is an old-fashioned word, rarely used; the sentences use it as the dictionary does.

examples

• Then she flew from the castle and donned her catskin robe again, and slipped into the scullery again, unbeknown to the cook. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• Next day he went to his mother, the lady of the castle, and told her that he wished to marry the scullery-maid, Catskin. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• and with that she curtsied, and flew from the ball, off with her golden robe, on with her catskin, and into the scullery without the cook's knowing. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

scullery

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 6 (Torah 0, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scullery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.