WARMING PAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warming pan mean? 

• WARMING PAN (noun)
  The noun WARMING PAN has 1 sense:

1. a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed

  Familiarity information: WARMING PAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARMING PAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("warming pan" is a kind of...):

pan (shallow container made of metal)

 Context examples 

"Good! Good!" cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Great applause as Mr. Weller deposited a little key on the table and subsided, the warming pan clashed and waved wildly, and it was some time before order could be restored.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Hear! Hear!" cried Jo, clashing the lid of the warming pan like a cymbal.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)