chafing-dishn.
A vessel to hold burning charcoal or other fuel, for heating anything placed upon it; a portable grate.
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1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §2 Holy-water Stopps, Chaffing-dishes, Hanging Lavers.
1538 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 134 I beqwethe Allso to my syster Mason a chaffyndyche.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 610 A chafingdish with coles.
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 246 Haue euer ready a Chaffen-dish with fire..to warme clowts.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler ii. 58 Let him [a Chub] then be boiled gently over a Chafing-dish with wood coles. View more context for this quotation
a1691 R. Boyle Medicinal Exper. (1692) I. iii. x. 27 A Chaffen-dish with Embers.
1825 W. Scott Talisman vii, in Tales Crusaders III. 173 A chafing-dish filled with charcoal.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 155 The meats were kept warm by chafing-dishes.
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