double boiler

1. 1.

   two saucepans, one fitting inside the other

   Synonymsdouble saucepan

   Broadersaucepan

Questions about double boiler

What does double boiler mean?

double boiler means "two saucepans, one fitting inside the other".

What is another word for double boiler?

Close synonyms include double saucepan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double boiler a common word?

double boiler 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.