1.He hired a battery of staff to help him with the daily chores, including a scullion (dishwasher), a laundress and a shoeblack (someone who cleans shoes).
4.His authority is superseded, his commission suspended, and the very scullion who cleans the brasses in the kitchen becomes of more importance than he.
7.Hot Pie looked around nervously. The kitchens were full of shadows and echoes, but the other cooks and scullions were all asleep in the cavernous lofts above the ovens. " He'll know" .