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1813 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 3 295/2 [List of Military Supplies] Mess pans.

1888 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee (new ed.) 136 A mess pan stands about six inches high, and is a foot in diameter at the top.

1906 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. 32 637 Inspect coffee pots and mess pans, and refuse to serve into any but scrupulously clean ones.

2010 J. R. Barry Basking in Cold War viii. 75 The two mess pans fit together into one unit with the spoon, fork, and knife rattling around inside.