SAUCEPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saucepan mean? 

• SAUCEPAN (noun)
  The noun SAUCEPAN has 1 sense:

1. a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling

  Familiarity information: SAUCEPAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAUCEPAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("saucepan" is a kind of...):

cooking pan; pan (cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel)

Meronyms (parts of "saucepan"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saucepan"):

double boiler; double saucepan (two saucepans, one fitting inside the other)

stewing pan; stewpan (a saucepan used for stewing)

 Context examples 

Grace Poole bent over the fire, apparently cooking something in a saucepan.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My hat (which had served me for a night-cap, too) was so crushed and bent, that no old battered handleless saucepan on a dunghill need have been ashamed to vie with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie came sneaking into the kitchen of the Dovecote one Saturday, with an excited face, and was received with the clash of cymbals, for Hannah clapped her hands with a saucepan in one and the cover in the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The refuse was not wholly vegetable either, for I myself saw a shoe, a doubled-up saucepan, a black bonnet, and an umbrella, in various stages of decomposition, as I was looking out for the number I wanted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Master at Salem House lifted the latch of one of a number of little black doors that were all alike, and had each a little diamond-paned window on one side, and another little diamond—paned window above; and we went into the little house of one of these poor old women, who was blowing a fire to make a little saucepan boil.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The division of labour to which he had referred was this:—Traddles cut the mutton into slices; Mr. Micawber (who could do anything of this sort to perfection) covered them with pepper, mustard, salt, and cayenne; I put them on the gridiron, turned them with a fork, and took them off, under Mr. Micawber's direction; and Mrs. Micawber heated, and continually stirred, some mushroom ketchup in a little saucepan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)