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skil⋅let
[skil-it] 
–noun
| 1. | a frying pan. |
| 2. | a cylindrical serving vessel of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, having a hinged lid, a handle, and, sometimes, feet. |
| 3. | Chiefly British. a long-handled saucepan. |
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME; orig. uncert.
1375–1425; late ME; orig. uncert.
frying pan
–noun
—Idiom| 1. | a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried. |
| 2. | out of the frying pan into the fire, free of one predicament but immediately in a worse one. |
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| fry·ing pan (frī'ĭng) n. A shallow, long-handled pan used for frying food. Also called skillet; also called regionally fry pan, spider. The terms frying pan and skillet are now virtually interchangeable, but there was a time when they were so regional as to be distinct dialect markers. Frying pan and the shortened version fry pan were once New England terms; frying pan is now in general use, as is the less common fry pan, now heard in the Atlantic states, the South, and the West, as well as New England. Skillet seems to have been confined to the Midland section of the country, including the Upper South. Its use is still concentrated there, but it is no longer used in that area alone, probably because of the national marketing of skillet dinner mixes. The term spider, originally denoting a type of frying pan that had long legs to hold it up over the coals, spread from New England westward to the Upper Northern states and down the coast to the South Atlantic states. It is still well known in both these regions, although it is now considered old-fashioned. See Note at andiron. |
| skil·let (skĭl'ĭt) n.
[Middle English skelet, from Old French escuelete, diminutive of escuele, plate, from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, platter.] |
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Skillet
Skil"let\, n. [OF. escuelette, dim. of escuelle a porringer, F. ecuelle, fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish. Cf. Scuttle a basket.] A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.
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skillet
1403, perhaps from M.Fr. esculette (Fr. écuelle), dim. of escuele "plate," from L. scutella "serving platter" (see scuttle (n.)); or formed in Eng. from skele "wooden bucket or pail" (c.1330), from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. skjola "pail, bucket").
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