chafing dish

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   a metal pan over a heater; used to cook or to keep things warm at the table

   Broadercooking utensil

Questions about chafing dish

What does chafing dish mean?

chafing dish means "a metal pan over a heater; used to cook or to keep things warm at the table".

Is chafing dish a common word?

chafing dish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.