cooker

Definition

A cookstove.

Etymology

From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).

Example Sentences

• "[…] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all."
• "And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder."
• "She was, in sooth, a most delicious cooker of delicious tit-bits."