warming pan

Definition

A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.

Example Sentences

• "Good Bardolfe / Put thy noſe betweene the ſheetes, and do the office of a warming pan."
• "[…] who speedily installed his Son […] into the office of Collector of Taxes, as a warming-pan, or locum tenens, till his Father-in-Law's twelvemonths of mock-heroic dignity had expired—or he should think proper to resume the Collectorship."
• "We used to call him in my parliamentary time W. P. Adams, in consequence of his being Warming Pan for a young fellow who was in his minority."