drip pan

noun

variants or dripping pan

1

usually drip pan : a container for catching material that drips from above (as from the burners of a gas range or a piece of oily machinery)

2

usually dripping pan : a usually shallow rectangular metal pan used especially for baking and roasting

Word History

Etymology

drip pan from drip entry 2 + pan; dripping pan from Middle English drepyngpanne, from drepyng dripping + panne pan

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