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pipkin|ˈpɪpkɪn|
Also 6 pypkin, 6–7 pipken.
[Origin doubtful. The form suggests a dim., f. pipe n.2 + -kin; cf. Sp. pipote keg, and Pg. pipote small cask or vessel, f. pipa pipe n.2 But there is no evidence that the pipkin was at first a small cask or staved vessel.]
1. A small earthenware pot or pan, used chiefly in cookery. (Formerly in wider sense, including metal pots. Now local; in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Warw. to Lincoln and Suff.)
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Ollula..a little potte: a pipken. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xlii. 201 Boyled with vinegar and hony in a brasen pipken or skillet. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 79 Put them together into a cleane pipkin or leaded pot,..let them stand ouer the fire one houre. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 1160 Free from a crack or flaw of sinning, As Men try Pipkins by the ringing. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 279 Put the Sea-salt..into an unglazed earthen pipkin, and set it amidst live coals. 1808Wolcott (P. Pindar) One more Peep at R. Acad. Wks. 1812 V. 355 A pipkin of brown crockery. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Pipkin or Pidkin, a small earthen vessel with a handle. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xiii. (1860) 139/1 The unglazed earthen pipkin, fashioned by the hand, without the assistance of the potter's wheel, is held to belong to the ‘bronze and stone periods’ of the antiquary.
2. U.S. and (?) dial. A small wooden tub having a vertical handle formed by the prolongation of one of the staves, a piggin.
1855Whittier Flowers in Winter ix, A wizard of the Merrimac,..Could call green leaf and blossom back To frosted stem and spray... The beechen platter sprouted wild, The pipkin wore its old-time green. 18..T. A. Hill MS. Collect. Nottingham Words (E.D.D.).
3. Comb., as pipkin-shaped adj.
1908E. Terry Story of my Life 199 A three-handled cup, pipkin-shaped, standing on three legs.
Hence ˈpipkinet (nonce-wd.), a small pipkin.
1647Herrick Noble Numb. Wks. (1869) 404 Thou my pipkinnet shalt see, Give a wave-offring unto Thee. |