fry-pan

plural fry-pans

1. alternativeAlternative form of frypan.

   These men know and respect the heavy iron fry-pan.

   1936, Harry Botsford, “Wizards of the Fry-Pan”, in Field and Stream, volume 41, page 30

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   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.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   But there was another fry-pan which distanced these both in respect of lightness and space.

   1993, John Davis Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life, page 134

   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.

   2009, Dane Coolidge, Hidden Water