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warming pan
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Definition:the seventeenth century equivalent of a hot water bottle: it's a metal pan; you fill it up with hot coals; use it to warm the sheets.BBC. Lucy Worsley, Tales from the Royal Bedchamber (August 5, 2013)---A clergyman who holds a living pro tempore, under a bond of resignation [...] because he keeps the place warm for his successor.—Clerical slang.A London Antiquary. A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)
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I thrust the warming pan hastily between the sheets at the foot of the bed and shoved it back and forth.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Morose: Let his warming pan be ever cold.
Truewit: A perpetual frost underneath it, sir.
Ben Jonson. Epicoene; or, the Silent Woman (1609)
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Uncle Silas he had a noble brass warming-pan which he thought considerable of, because it belonged to one of his ancesters with a long wooden handle that come over from England with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower or one of them early ships
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn.
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Lucy Worsley: [...] and how was the baby supposed to have been transported? [...] [in] the infamous warming pan.
BBC. Tales from the Royal Bedchamber (August 5, 2013)
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"Oh, he's Mr. Hawkshaw's stepson, over at Combe Mary," Winnie answered with a nod. "Mr. Hawkshaw's the vicar there till Mamma's nephew is ready to take the living—what they call a warming-pan.
Grant Allen. The Woman Who Did.
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