chorkor

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noun

An oven for smoking food, particularly fish, used in many African countries.

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Meanings

nounchorkor (plural chorkors)

plural chorkors

  1. An oven for smoking food, particularly fish, used in many African countries.

    The UNIFEM project sought to introduce chorkor fish-smoking ovens because they were more efficient than the existing methods used in Konakry.

    1994, Naila Kabeer, Reversed realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, page 273
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