warming pan

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   a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed

   Broaderpan

Questions about warming pan

What does warming pan mean?

warming pan means "a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed".

Is warming pan a common word?

warming pan 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.