warming pan

English

Noun

warming pan (plural warming pans)

A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, II. i. 81:
  Good / Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and do the / office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.
(figuratively, dated) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over.

Synonyms

bedwarmer

Translations

covered metal pan

Catalan: escalfallits (ca) m
Italian: scaldaletto m

Scottish Gaelic: frith-aghann f
Spanish: mundillo m

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