ˈchafing-dish
Also 6 chaffyndyche, 6–8 chafindish, 7 chaffendish, chafen-dish, 5–9 chaffing-dish.
[f. chafing vbl. n. + dish n.]
A vessel to hold burning charcoal or other fuel, for heating anything placed upon it; a portable grate.
| 1483 Act 1 Rich. III, c. 12 §2 Holy-water Stopps, Chaffing-dishes, Hanging Lavers. 1538 Bury Wills (1850) 134, I beqwethe Allso to my syster Mason a chaffyndyche. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 473 A Chafindish with Coals. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 203 Have ever ready a Chaffen⁓dish with fire..to warm clouts. 1653 Walton Angler ii. 58 Let him [a Chub] then be boiled gently over a Chafing-dish with wood coles. 1693 Boyle Med. Exp. iii. 27 A Chafen-dish with Embers. 1825 Scott Talism. vii, A chaffing-dish filled with charcoal. 1843 Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 131 The meats were kept warm by chafing-dishes. |