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

“Good! Good!” cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott