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milkpan

milkpan noun: a pan in which milk is stored.

Noun

milkpan (plural milkpans)

  1. A pan in which milk is stored.
    • Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.1957, House and Garden, volume 111

Forms of milkpan

pluralmilkpans

Origin of milkpan

From milk + pan.

Questions about milkpan

What does milkpan mean?
Milkpan means a pan in which milk is stored.
What part of speech is milkpan?
Milkpan is a noun.
What is the plural of milkpan?
The plural of milkpan is milkpans.

Words near milkpan in the dictionary

  1. milkoholic
  2. milkoholics
  3. Milkomeda
  4. milkos
  5. milkovoite
  6. milkpan
  7. milkpans
  8. milkpeople
  9. milkperson
  10. milkpersons
  11. milkpox

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