warming pan
- noun
- /ˈwɔrmɪŋ pæn/
- Archaic
:
cazuela calefactora
- After filling the warming pan with hot coals, she slid it beneath the sheets to warm them before bedtime.
Examples
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Before electric blankets were invented, people often used a warming pan to heat their beds in winter.
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She placed a warming pan under the blankets.
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The antique warming pan displayed above the fireplace once belonged to my great-grandparents.
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The warming pan was filled with hot coals.
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Before electric blankets were invented, people often used a warming pan to heat their beds in winter.
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After filling the warming pan with hot coals, she slid it beneath the sheets to warm them before bedtime.
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The antique warming pan displayed above the fireplace once belonged to my great-grandparents.
How Warm
93
4.1
15
2.7
5
3.5
- Archaic
- UK
6
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pan designed to keep food warm' is directly and compositionally derived from 'warming' (producing or keeping heat) + 'pan' (a cooking vessel); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this. This noun+modifier pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so the expression is predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Warming pan was originally a long-handled metal pan filled with hot coals that people slid under the sheets to heat a bed. So the name comes from that clear picture of a pan used for warming, and it means 'to warm a bed'.