kitchener

plural kitcheners

1. obsoleteA kitchen servant; a cook.

   The industry of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith's, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener's, cooking offhand victuals; for bouche va toujours [people need to eat].

   1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Give Us Arms”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (The Third Estate), page 179

2. obsoleteA stove for cooking.

plural Kitcheners

1. countableA surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked in a kitchen.
2. A title:
   1. UKcountableuncountableA British earldom
   2. countableuncountableHerbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal in the First World War
3. A placename.
   1. countableuncountableA city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
   2. countableuncountableA small town in the City of Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.