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# scullery

«scullery» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small room at the back of a house or castle, where…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (sculleries)

### meaning for a pupil

A scullery is a small room at the back of a house or castle, where dishes and pots are washed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the place where the kitchen maid works in old stories; in the lessons, «the scullery-maid» is the girl who does the dirty kitchen work

### examples

- Catskin crept back into the scullery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullery/#x1)
- The scullery was full of dirty pots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullery/#x2)
- She washed the dishes in the scullery every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scullery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.