saucepanful

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noun

Enough to fill a saucepan.

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Meanings

nounsaucepanful (plural saucepanfuls or saucepansful)

plural saucepanfuls · plural saucepansful

  1. Enough to fill a saucepan.
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    But if this method is preferred, after you have drawn off what liquid you can with the syphon without disturbing the sediment at the bottom of the vessel, for this will contain the gold, add three or four saucepansful of boiling water, each saucepanful being added separately, and allowed to cool each time and the water carefully syphoned off;[…]

    1920, George E[dward] Gee, “The Zinc Process”, in Recovering Precious Metals from Waste Liquid Residues: […], London: E. & F. N. Spon, Limited, […]; New York, N.Y.: Spon & Chamberlain, […], page 54

Origin

From saucepan + -ful.

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APA

saucepanful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saucepanful

MLA

“saucepanful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saucepanful. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “saucepanful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saucepanful.

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