SCULLERY  , a back-

kitchen, the place where dishes, plates, kettles, &c., are washed and cleaned, and the rough work connected with the domestic service of a house is performed . The Med . Lat. scutellarius, keeper of dishes and plates (scutella), became in O . Fr. escueillier or sculier, whence in English sculler, squiler, &c . A " sergeaunt-squylloure " is found amongst the officials of the royal household; and the Promptorium parvulorum, dating about 1400, glosses lixa, a sutler or camp-cook, by " squyllare, dysche-wescheare." " Scullion," a kitchen-wench, has been naturally connected with scullery, but is derived from 0 . Fr. escouillon, dish-cloth, cf . Span. escobillon, spring for a gun, ultimately from Lat. scopa, birch tree, scopae, broom of birch twigs .