skillet

[ skil-it ]
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noun
  1. a frying pan.

  2. a cylindrical serving vessel of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, having a hinged lid, a handle, and, sometimes, feet.

  1. Chiefly British. a long-handled saucepan.

Origin of skillet

1
1375–1425; late Middle English; origin uncertain

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How to use skillet in a sentence

  • They used the iron pots and skillets they had brought from England, some of which are still preserved at Plymouth.

    The Story of American History | Albert F. Blaisdell
  • Fact is this arm of mine pains a little too much for me to sling the pots and skillets around in my customary way.

  • Peggy set skillets on the stove with nothing in them, and snatched them off again, just in time to avert disaster.

    Peggy Raymond's Way | Harriet Lummis Smith
  • Do I look like a man who labors under a chronic destitution of dogs, pigs, skillets, and tongs?

    The Land of Thor | J. Ross Browne
  • He had a wide fireplace in his kitchen where he cooked over it, in skillets.

British Dictionary definitions for skillet

skillet

/ (ˈskɪlɪt) /


noun
  1. a small frying pan

  2. mainly British a saucepan

Origin of skillet

1
C15: probably from skele bucket, of Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse skjōla bucket

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