warming pan

American  

noun

1. a long-handled, covered pan, usually of brass, filled with live coals or hot water for warming a cold bed.

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warming pan British  

noun

1. a pan, often of copper and having a long handle, filled with hot coals or hot water and formerly drawn over the sheets to warm a bed

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Etymology

Origin of warming pan

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

First, will the forecast El Niño and Atlantic warming pan out?

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

The result is intensifying debate over what is still widely viewed as a last-ditch option should worst-case projections of warming pan out.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2010

It damned the royal son just born to Queen Mary and arrogant, Roman Catholic King James II as a changeling, slipped into the royal childbed in a warming pan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contemporary rumor was that the child was not Mary's at all, but was brought to her, new born, in a long-handled warming pan.

From Time Magazine Archive

When she was ready for bed, Madam called for me to bring up a warming pan filled with coals and run it between the sheets because they were chilled and still a wee bit damp.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson