skillet

Meanings

1. A large and heavy saucepan or frying pan with legs and, usually, a long handle designed for heating food in a fireplace.
2. A pan for frying, generally large and heavy.
3. A dish or meal cooked in such a pan.

1. To cook in a skillet.

Etymology

From Old French escuëlette, diminutive of escuëlle (“a porringer”), (French écuelle), from Vulgar Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra, scuta (“tray, dish”). Compare scuttle (“basket”).