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skil·let

(skĭl′ĭt)

2. Chiefly British A long-handled stewing pan or saucepan sometimes having legs.

[Middle English skelett, from Old French escuelete, diminutive of escuele, plate, from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, platter.]

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skillet

(ˈskɪlɪt)

1. (Cookery) a small frying pan

2. (Cookery) chiefly Brit a saucepan

[C15: probably from skele bucket, of Scandinavian origin; related to Old Norse skjōla bucket]

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skil•let

(ˈskɪl ɪt)

n.

1. a frying pan.

2. Chiefly Brit. a metal cooking pot, with a long handle and sometimes legs, for cooking at a hearth.

[1375–1425; late Middle English; orig. uncertain]

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Noun

skillet - a pan used for frying foods

frying pan, frypan

electric frying pan - a frying pan heated by electricity

handgrip, handle, grip, hold - the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it; "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"

cooking pan, pan - cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel

spider - a skillet made of cast iron

Translations

padella tegame

skillet

[ˈskɪlɪt] N → sartén f pequeña, sartén m pequeño (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

skillet

[ˈskɪlɪt] n (= frying pan) → poêlon m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

skillet

n → Bratpfanne f

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skillet

[ˈskɪlɪt] n (Am) → padella

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"She can eat out of my skillet the rest of her life.

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Sometimes a portion of our family would eat out of the skillet or pot, while some one else would eat from a tin plate held on the knees, and often using nothing but the hands with which to hold the food.

There was no cooking-stove on our plantation, and all the cooking for the whites and slaves my mother had to do over an open fireplace, mostly in pots and "skillets." While the poorly built cabin caused us to suffer with cold in the winter, the heat from the open fireplace in summer was equally trying.

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I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.

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Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quan- tity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.

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Wade, a tall, spare woman, moved about a camp-fire, preparing supper in a sizzling skillet, huge iron kettle and blackened coffee-pot.

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My furniture, part of which I made myself -- and the rest cost me nothing of which I have not rendered an account -- consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a looking-glass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.

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In a large wide skillet or wok over high heat, warm 1 tablespoon of the oil until shimmering.

Fried Rice With Broccoli And Mustard Greens

It was the practice to sweep the floors of goldsmiths' and silversmiths' workshops at the end of each day to collect the various metal shavings, which were then melted and the metallic content made into what is called a skillet, (similar to an ingot) which is then sold to the refiners.

UNDER THE HAMMER

In skillet, melt 2 tablespoons margarine, and saute onions, remove; set aside.

crawfish fettuccine

TheLove Islandstar, who was tragically found dead yesterday at the age of 26, was due to open eatery The Skillet with his business partner Scott Neilson.

Flowers laid at Mike Thalassitis' Essex restaurant he was due to open with pal; The Love Island star, found dead yesterday at the age of 26, was opening a restaurant with his business partner Scott Neilson

Pizookie is a delicious mega chocolate chip cookie cooked in a cast iron skillet and then topped with ice cream.