"warming pan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: warming pans [plural]
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  1. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed. Synonyms: bedwarmer Translations (covered metal pan): escalfallits [masculine] (Catalan), scaldaletto [masculine] (Italian), frith-aghann [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), mundillo [masculine] (Spanish)
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  2. (figurative, dated) A person put into a situation to hold it until another person can take over. Tags: dated, figuratively Synonyms: locum tenens
    Sense id: en-warming_pan-en-noun-sGL8Ld4k Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 49 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 52 48

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