Saucepan
['sɔːspən] or ['sɔspæn]
Definition
(noun.) a deep pan with a handle; used for stewing or boiling.
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- I never go into the kitchen but there is a saucepan on the fire, cooking him some dainty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the coffee was done, the Jew drew the saucepan to the hob. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- His supper was cooking in a saucepan on the fire, and, when she moved, it was to make it ready for him on the table. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He appears to me to have lived in a hail of saucepan-lids. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Grace Poole bent over the fire, apparently cooking something in a saucepan. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To-day in the electric furnace one may see tons of incandescent steel swirling about like boiling milk in a saucepan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At last she amused herself at her country-house by sending her mother cart-loads of dishes, plates and saucepans, proposing to furnish her a house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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