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ˈfire-pan
[OE. fýrpanne, f. fýr, fire + panne, pan.]
1. A pan or receptacle for holding or carrying fire, e.g. a brazier, a chafing dish, a portable grate.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 124 Arula, uel batilla fyrpanne. 1382Wyclif Ex. xxxviii. 3 Fleshhokes, hokes, and fier pannes. 1432E.E. Wills (1882) 91 A vergyous barell, and a fyerpanne. 1567Inv. Sir G. Conyers in Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) 267 A poer, a fier pann and a pair of tonngs xxd. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. vi. xiii. (1655) 306 That..the watch-tower called Repentance, be repaired, a great bell and firepan put into it. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 58/1 The Romans..had fire-pans, or chafing dishes, placed in their baskets. 1767–9S. Paterson Another Traveller! II. 141 He next takes the pipe in one hand and the fire-pan in the other. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 158 The portable brazier, or fire-pan, which might be used in any apartment requiring to be warmed.
†2. A pan for heating anything over a fire. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 285 Hold it in a fire⁓pan over the fire untill it be baked so hard as it may be made in powder. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 44 To poure them upon a Fire-pan somewhat heated.
†3. The pan which held the priming of a flintlock gun. Obs.
1613T. Jackson Comm. Apost. Creede I. 192 This was but as a little flash in the fire-panne.
†4. A kind of firework. Obs.
c1793in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1799) I. 91 They ran about..letting off fire-pans of all sizes; firing crackers [etc.].
5. Mining. ‘A kind of fire-lamp’ (Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining 1883). |