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saucepan|ˈsɔːspən|
[f. sauce n. + pan n.1]
1. a. In early use, ‘a small skillet with a long handle, in which sauce or small things are boiled’ (J.). Now, in wider application, a vessel of metal, with a long handle projecting from the side, and usually with a lid; the utensil most commonly employed for culinary boiling, except for large joints of meat.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2120/8 Two Silver Porringers, one Silver Sawce-pan. 1697E. Lhwyd in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 468 With these Plates he makes Furnaces, Pots,..Sauce-Pans, &c. 1729Swift Direct. Serv. ii. (1751) 38 If you have a Silver Sauce-pan, and the Butter smells of Smoak, lay the Fault upon the Coals. 1817Lady Morgan France i. (1818) I. 65 He found his gold-headed cane, silver saucepan, baggage, every thing in short in statu quo. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. iv, I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 174 As an oilbath a small cast-iron saucepan answers well.
b. phr. (Cf. sauce n. 6.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Your Sauce-Pan runs over, you are exceeding bold.
2. attrib. and Comb., as saucepan-brush; saucepan crab, the crab Limulus Polyphemus, the shell of which is used, in tropical America, for a ladle; saucepan lid, rhyming slang for (a) a ‘quid’, a one-pound note; (b) a ‘kid’, a child.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 181/1 Steel *saucepan brush. Each— -/6. 1944C. Milburn Diary 30 Dec. (1979) 260 A few oddments at the ironmonger's..a dish mop, a baking tin, a colander, a saucepan brush. 1952Observer 12 Oct. 5/3 Won't dish-mops, saucepan-brushes and swabs, rubbers, and all kitchen cloths one day be of nylon?
1884Leisure Hour Nov. 687/2 King crabs..are sometimes called the horseshoe crab..as also *saucepan crab.
1861E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter viii, Do you call that *saucepan lid clean?—because I don't. 1951P. Hoskins No Hiding Place! xvii. 191/2 Saucepan lid, {pstlg}1 note. 1960J. Franklyn Dict. Rhyming Slang 119/1 Saucepan lid,..kid. |