Also 6 chaffyndyche, 6–8 chafindish, 7 chaffendish, chafen-dish, 5–9 chaffing-dish. [f. CHAFING vbl. sb. + DISH sb.] A vessel to hold burning charcoal or other fuel, for heating anything placed upon it; a portable grate.
1483. Act 1 Rich. III., c. 12 § 2. Holy-water Stopps, Chaffing-dishes, Hanging Lavers.
1538. Bury Wills (1850), 134. I beqwethe Allso to my syster Mason a chaffyndyche.
1580. North, Plutarch (1676), 473. A Chafindish with Coals.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, 246. Haue euer ready a Chaffendish with fire … to warme clowts.
1653. Walton, Angler, ii. 58. Let him [a Chub] then be boiled gently over a Chafing-dish with wood coles.
1693. Boyle, Med. Exp., iii. 27. A Chafen-dish with Embers.
1825. Scott, Talism., vii. A chaffing-dish filled with charcoal.
1843. Prescott, Mexico (1850), I. 131. The meats were kept warm by chafing-dishes.
