CUPBOARD
NOUNS
► ALMERY ► AMBRY ► AUMBRY ► AUMRY a cupboard or chest where food is kept, a pantry → 1768 Eng. dial.
► BOAL a small cupboard or press in the wall → 1930 Amer. dial.
► CABBER a corruption of ‘cupboard’ → 1757 Sc. obs.
► CAP-AMBRY a cupboard or press, probably used for holding wooden vessel used at meals → 1888 obs. exc. Sc. (Bk.)
► CUDDY a small cupboard or closet → 1793
► CUDDY-HOLE a small cupboard → 1848 Amer. dial.
► DARK-CLOSET a cupboard or wardrobe → 1726 obs.
► GARDEVIANCE a ventilated cupboard for meat → 1459 obs.
► LAMRIE a cupboard; an ‘aumry’ → 1924 Sc.
► LOCKER a cupboard for the storage of foodstuffs; a pantry → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MOTHER HUBBARD a cupboard → L19 rhyming sl.
► PRESS a large cupboard, esp. one placed in a recess in the wall, for holding linen, clothes, book, etc., or food, plates, dishes, and other kitchen items → c1387
► PRESSER a cupboard → 1503
► PRESSOUR a cupboard, a wardrobe → 1444 obs.
► SCOB ► SKOB a dark cupboard or hole → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SHELF a cupboard or cabinet → 1440 obs.
► THACKER a small open cupboard → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WARESTALL a store cupboard → \1508 Sc. obs.
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