Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warming \Warm"ing\, a. & n. from Warm, v.
Warming pan, a long-handled covered pan into which live
coals are put, -- used for warming beds.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. A covered metal pan attached to a long handle, holding live coals and used to warm a bed.
WordNet
n. a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed
Usage examples of "warming pan".
It was the warming pan where frozen passengers were thawed back to life when the journey was through.
I spotted Brother Roger, anxiously lurking in the hall, and sent him scampering for a warming pan, while I steered my awkward burden into the chamber and dumped him onto the bed.
I thrust the warming pan hastily between the sheets at the foot of the bed and shoved it back and forth.
She slid the copper warming pan under the covers of her bed and held it there until she smelt the linen begin to singe.
As she danced away, she snatched a long-handled warming pan from a peg above the hearth and, with all of her strength, brought it around.
He left the cake and filled the basin with water from the warming pan.