skillet

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These include a skillet, which is a type of pan that may have been used for baptism purposes, indicated by a cross on the handle.

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  1. noun See frying pan. See Regional Notes at andiron, frying pan.
  2. noun Chiefly British A long-handled stewing pan or saucepan sometimes having legs.

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  1. Middle English skelet, from Old French escuelete, diminutive of escuele, plate, from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, platter.

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  1. Formerly or dial. also skellet; from Old French escuellette, a little dish, diminutive of escuelle, a dish, French écuelle, a porringer, =Provencal escudella =Spanish escudilla =Portuguese escudella =Italian scodella, from Latin scutella, a salver, tray, Middle Latin a platter, dish: see scuttle, sculler, scullery.
 

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/ˈskɪlɛt/
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