Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
creaming-pan .
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Examples
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Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,
Love in the Valley 1919
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Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,
Love in the Valley 1909
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One huge tree always gave a cream-pan full -- a double measure -- while the others were filling an ordinary pan.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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But valuable or not, we cannot hurt it, can we, sir, by passing it over the cream-pan? '
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But valuable or not, we cannot hurt it, can we, sir, by passing it over the cream-pan?’
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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One huge tree always gave a cream-pan full ” a double measure ” while the others were filling an ordinary pan.
My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922
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