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

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

First recorded in 1565–75

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!

For lack of a lancet they opened his vein with a penknife; a hot warming-pan is placed on his head.

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.'

The oddest part of all is, that I had the hardest work to get out my own warming-pan.

In front of the fire sat the Carrier, with nearly all of his best clothes on, and gazing at a warming-pan.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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