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warming pans

warming pans is the plural of warming pan.

Meaning of warming pan

Noun

warming pan (plural warming pans)

  1. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
    • Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan.1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    bedwarmer
  2. (dated, figuratively) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.
    • […] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship.1820, The Steeliad, a Poem, in Three Cantos, page 35
    Synonyms:
    locum tenens

Questions about warming pans

What is warming pans the plural of?
Warming pans is the plural of warming pan.

Words near warming pans in the dictionary

  1. warming centres
  2. warming down
  3. warming drawer
  4. warming over
  5. warming pan
  6. warming pans
  7. warming room
  8. warming rooms
  9. warming someone's heart
  10. warming station
  11. warming stations

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