chafing dish

chafing dish
/chay"fing/
1. an apparatus consisting of a metal dish with a lamp or heating appliance beneath it, for cooking food or keeping it hot at the table.
2. a vessel that holds charcoal or the like, for heating anything set over it.
[1400-50; late ME chafing warming (see CHAFE, -ING1)]

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