skillet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a frying pan, especially a heavy one with a long handle

   She browned the potatoes in a cast-iron skillet.

2. 2
   noun

   a dish or meal cooked and served in a skillet

   The cafe served a breakfast skillet with eggs, beans, and potatoes.

From Old French escuelete, a diminutive of escuele, 'dish or bowl,' ultimately from Latin scutella, 'small dish.' English first used skillet for a small metal cooking vessel; in modern North American use it commonly means a frying pan.

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