[cf. MDu. beddepanne: see PAN.]
1. A pan for warming beds; a warming-pan.
1585. J. Higgins, Junius’ Nomencl., Batillus cubicularius … un eschauffoir de lit, a bed pan, or warming pan.
1597. Gerard, Herbal (1633), 1066. A little bag with some … Bay-salt, and made hot vpon a bed-pan.
1699. Garth, Dispens., 72. Each Combatant his Adversary mauls With batter’d Bed-pans.
2. A chamber utensil constructed for use in bed.
1883. Flor. Nightingale, in Quain’s Dict. Med., 1046. Bed-pans should have Carbolic powder in them lavishly.
