Definition of "pipkin" [pip•kin]

• A small earthenware or metal cooking pot. (noun)

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• "She took a pipkin from the hearth, where a small fire burned, though it was summer weather, as Dickie could see by the green tree-tops that swayed and moved outside in the sun, poured some gruel out of it into a silver basin."
• "Why, the pipkin was about as much as you could manage. '"
• "Mix them together by melting in a pipkin over the fire; and suffer them to boil till they acquire so stiff a consistence that, being dropt into water while of this boiling heat, they will not spread on the surface of it, but form a roundish mass or lump."