warming pan

noun

a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.

Origin of warming pan

First recorded in 1565–75

Words Nearby warming pan

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How to use warming pan in a sentence

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!
The Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete | Honore de Balzac
For lack of a lancet they opened his vein with a penknife; a hot warming-pan is placed on his head.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge
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 Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 | Various
The oddest part of all is, that I had the hardest work to get out my own warming-pan.
The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, bart., M.P., formerly known as "Tommy Upmore" | R. D. Blackmore
In front of the fire sat the Carrier, with nearly all of his best clothes on, and gazing at a warming-pan.
Cripps, the Carrier | R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

British Dictionary definitions for warming pan

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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