"warming pan" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: warming pans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} warming pan (plural warming pans)
  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)
    Sense id: en-warming_pan-en-noun-HyPmns6F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'covered metal pan': 94 6
  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

Inflected forms

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