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warming pan
noun
- a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.
warming pan
noun
- a pan, often of copper and having a long handle, filled with hot coals or hot water and formerly drawn over the sheets to warm a bed
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Word History and Origins
Origin of warming pan1
First recorded in 1565–75
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Example Sentences
You think of the bottle of hot water that your wife has put to her feet when it is cold,—of the warming pan, above all!
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For lack of a lancet they opened his vein with a penknife; a hot warming-pan is placed on his head.
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As for his cursed old warming-pan, I do not value it a sous; it is not worth the trouble I have taken for it.'
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The oddest part of all is, that I had the hardest work to get out my own warming-pan.
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In front of the fire sat the Carrier, with nearly all of his best clothes on, and gazing at a warming-pan.
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