fry-pan

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English

Noun

fry-pan (plural fry-pans)

  1. Alternative form of frypan
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel […] . Next he put the mackerel in a fry-pan, and the shanty began to smell like a Banks boat just in from a v'yage.
    • 1936, Harry Botsford, “Wizards of the Fry-Pan”, in Field and Stream, volume 41, page 30:
      These men know and respect the heavy iron fry-pan.
    • 1993, John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, page 134:
      But there was another fry-pan which distanced these both in respect of lightness and space.
    • 2009, Dane Coolidge, Hidden Water:
      Then, still deep in their talk, they filled their plates from the fry-pan, helped themselves to meat, wrapped the rest of the bread in the cloth, and sat comfortably back on their heels, eating with their fingers and knives.

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