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▪ I. skillet1|ˈskɪlɪt|
Forms: α. 5 skelet(t, 6–7, 9 skellet (7, 9 -it), 8 scellet. β. 6 skyllet, 7 skillett, 6– skillet.
[Of obscure origin.
The sense is against connexion with OF. eschelette, etc., a little bell (see skellat), and both form and sense differ from OF. escuelete, esculette, a small plate. The ending -et, however, and the culinary associations of the thing itself, make it probable that the source was AF. or OF.]
1. A cooking utensil of brass, copper, or other metal, usually having three or four feet and a long handle, used for boiling liquids, stewing meat, etc.; a saucepan, stew-pan. (See also quot. 1866.) Now chiefly N. Amer., a frying-pan, a (heavy) cooking-pan.
α1403Nottingham Rec. II. 20 Unius skelett aeneae, iij d. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 131 Take crownes of whitsour bred, smal myed on a gratour, & do hit in a skelet. 1530Palsgr. 271/1 Skellet with a handell, poillon. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 144 b, These after putting into a possenet or skellet, set..over the fyre. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme ii. xix. 174 Then put it into a verie cleane sweet pipkin or skellet. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. v. xii. 67 Take an Iron Pot or Skellet,..set it on the Fire. 1719Will of J. Hirst (Yorks.), A dozen of trenchers, a skellet, a spit and racks. 1838Holloway Prov. Dict., Skellit, a small pot with a handle. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Skellet,..a funnel shaped vessel, used principally for heating beer and milk.
β1519Maldon (Essex) Liber B. fol. 160 b, iii⊇ ketills, a skillet, ix⊇ platers. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus M ij b, He shall gyue a lydde or couer worthy for the skyllet or lyttell panne. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xlii. 201 The juyce of the leaves boyled..in a brasen pipkin or skillet is very good to heale..old ulcers. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. l. 541 Boile them in fresh water in some skillet. 1658R. White tr. Digby's Powd. Symp. (1660) 118 In boyling the milk it swells so high that it sheds over the brim of the skillet. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. p. lxii, I have seen some try to boil Cane-juice to sugar in an ordinary Skillet. 1757Phil. Trans. L. 108 The lightning..melted an old copper skillet. 1801Wolcot (P. Pindar) Epist. Ct. Rumford Wks. 1812 V. 136 Whose tinkers form..Skillets and saucepans. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 55 The dressers were resplendent with immense brass skillets. 1881Cornh. Mag. Mar. 364 Armed with a skillet she happened..to have been scouring. 1917C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan vi. 73 [Nearby lay] an iron skillet with the handle broken off. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August xvii. 382 He stands, tall, mis⁓shapen, lonely in his lonely and illkept kitchen, holding in his hand an iron skillet in which yesterday's old grease is bleakly caked. 1959A. Sexton in Audience Autumn 31, I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets. 1968Globe & Mail Mag. (Toronto) 13 Jan. 16/3 Cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat, until slightly thickened. Add frankfurters. Cover skillet, simmer 8 to 10 minutes. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Parade Suppl.) 12/4 Heat oil in paella pan or wide skillet.
2. dial. (See quot.)
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 353 Skillet, the thin brass perforated implement used for skimming or fletting the cream off milk.
3. attrib. and Comb., as skillet-maker, skillet pan, skillet soot; also skilletful.
1552in Bury Wills (Surtees) 142 Too brasse pannys, to kattylls, one skyllet panne. 1611Cotgr., Poislier,..a Skellet-maker, or Frying-panne maker. 1641Milton Animadv. 67 Your confutation hath..left nothing upon it, but a foul taste of your skillet soot. 1888Cent. Mag. Jan. 373/2 Mrs. Pearson..had baked a skilletful of hot biscuits.
▪ II. ˈskillet2
[Of obscure origin; there is no obvious connexion with prec.]
1. (See quot. 1888.) Also in more general applications.
1888Pall Mall G. 31 July 3/1 Here a block is being cut into the right length and shape for ‘skillets’, the wooden strips of which matchboxes are made. 1959Gloss. Terms Packaging (B.S.I.) 19 Skillet, a piece of scored timber rotarily cut into veneers which forms part of the finished punnet. 1968Guardian 18 Nov. 6/4 Mr Moreland keeps a selection of ‘skillets’ (flattened out matchboxes) in his wallet to pass round at social gatherings.
2. A thick flat piece of silver or other precious metal (Cent. Dict.).
▪ III. skillet
variant of skellat, bell. |