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Saucepan

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

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Broader term 1

Pan 76% connected

A part; a portion.

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Stewpan 76% connected

A pan used for stewing.

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Grip 70% connected

The griffin.

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Handle 70% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Hold 70% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Amadou noun · 78% connection

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has be…

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Autoclave noun · 78% connection

A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

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Axe noun · 78% connection

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…

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Bechamel noun · 78% connection

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

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Billhook noun · 78% connection

A thick, heavy knife with a hooked point, used in pruning hedges, etc. When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill;…

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Brake verb · 78% connection

An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine.

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Broil verb · 78% connection

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Burning noun · 78% connection

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

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Burnt p. p. & a. · 78% connection

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

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Crude superl. · 78% connection

In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial p…

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Dish noun · 78% connection

a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"

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Fire verb · 78% connection

To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.

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Flue noun · 78% connection

A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds wa…

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Fumble verb · 78% connection

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

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Garum noun · 78% connection

A sauce made of small fish. It was prized by the ancients.

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Hilt noun · 78% connection

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

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Igneous adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to, having the nature of, fire; containing fire; resembling fire; as, an igneous appearance.

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