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bed-pan|ˈbɛdˌpæn|
[cf. MDu. beddepanne: see pan.]
1. A pan for warming beds; a warming-pan.
1585J. Higgins Junius' Nomencl., Batillus cubicularius..un eschauffoir de lit, a bed pan, or warming pan. 1597Gerard Herbal (1633) 1066 A little bag with some..Bay-salt, and made hot vpon a bed-pan. 1699Garth Dispens. 72 Each Combatant his Adversary mauls With batter'd Bed-pans.
2. A chamber utensil constructed for use in bed.
1678in Rec. New Castle Del. Court (Penn.) (1904) 361 Two Earthen bed Pans. 1711in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. IV. 187/1 A bed pan and stool pan. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 254 The urine has continued to flow involuntarily, but a few spoons full have been occasionally voided into the bed pan. 1883F. Nightingale in Quain Dict. Med. 1046 Bed-pans should have Carbolic powder in them lavishly. |