Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as creaming-pan.

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Examples

  • Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,

    Love in the Valley 1919

  • Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,

    Love in the Valley 1909

  • 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

  • Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school,

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • But valuable or not, we cannot hurt it, can we, sir, by passing it over the cream-pan? '

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • But valuable or not, we cannot hurt it, can we, sir, by passing it over the cream-pan?’

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • 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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