单词 | saucepan |
释义 | saucepann. In early use: a small metal pan or skillet with a long handle, used esp. for cooking and serving sauces. Now more generally: a deep metal pan, typically round with one long handle and a separate lid, used for any of various general purposes in cooking, especially boiling or heating food on a hob. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pan > saucepan or stewpan goose-pan1420 saucepot1516 stupnet1560 beef-boiler1611 chafern1613 stupan1617 stewpot1629 saucepan1639 stewpan1653 casserole1725 goblet1739 double boiler1879 double saucepan1880 cassolette1898 cassoulet1940 saucier1978 1639 I. W. tr. P. Guybert Charitable Physitian 8 Take two ounces of common honey, boyle it in a little sauce pan upon a cleare fire untill it commeth to the thicknesse of an Electuary solide. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 42 If you have a Silver Sauce-pan; and the Butter smells of Smoak, lay the Fault upon the Coals. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 26 I would recommend examination of the bacon in the saucepan on the fire. 1934 M. T. King Mothercraft xiv. 239 Boil thoroughly for 5 minutes in a saucepan with a good fitting lid. 2008 BBC Good Food Sept. 18/2 Heat 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil in a heavy-based saucepan over a medium heat. Phrases† your saucepan runs over: used to suggest that a person is very bold, forthright, or impudent. Cf. sauce n. III., saucy adj.1 1a. Obsolete. [With allusion to the biblical phrase my cup runneth over (Psalms 23:5), frequently used to indicate that a person has even more of something than they hoped or believed they could have.] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > impudent [phrase] your saucepan runs over1699 as bold as brass1789 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Your Sauce-Pan runs over, you are exceeding bold. Compounds saucepan brush n. a small brush with short stiff bristles used for scrubbing food residue from saucepans or other cooking equipment. ΚΠ 1856 Argus (Melbourne) 16 Jan. 3/3 (advt.) Brushware... Registered saucepan brushes. 1944 C. Milburn Diary 30 Dec. (1979) 260 A few oddments at the ironmonger's..a dish mop, a baking tin, a colander, a saucepan brush. 2012 N. Jackman & T. Quinn Cook's Tale xxxii. 139 There were jug brushes, plate brushes, saucepan brushes. saucepan crab n. now historical and rare the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus; cf. panfish n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > order Xiphosura or Merostomata > [noun] > genus Limulus > member of king crabc1612 horse-foot1672 Molucca crab1681 sea-louse1681 horse-hoof1699 horseshoe1775 saucepan crab1863 horseshoe-crab1865 fiddle-fish1867 xiphosurid1969 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) III. 645 One living species (Limulus cyclops) is a native of the East Indies, and goes by the popular name of Pan-fish, or Saucepan-crab, because the shell, when the limbs and body have been removed and the tail spine permitted to retain its place, has some resemblance to the useful culinary article. 1960 Estuarine Bull. Summer 4 (caption) These animals, once also called ‘saucepan crabs’, were dried before being coarsely ground into a fertilizer meal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1639 |
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