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Definition of Hot pad

1. Noun. A pad for use under a hot dish to protect a table.

2. Noun. Heater consisting of electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot Pad

hot lunches hot melt adhesive hot melt glue hot mess hot metal hot metal typesetting hot money hot nickel hot nodule hot off the press

hot off the presses hot on hot on somebody's heels hot pack hot pad (current term) hot panted hot pants hot pepper hot pink hot pint

hot plate hot pot hot potato hot potatoes hot pots hot press hot presses hot property hot pursuit

Literary usage of Hot pad

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ladies' manual of practical hydropathy, for female diseases; also by Caroline Anne Smedley (1861)
"8 Cold dripping sheet, hot pad to chest, standing on flannel pad. ... 16 Stand on hot pad, and have several cans of cold water dashed on the back part of ..."

2. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1903)
"For experimental purposes the paper might be backed with a hot pad of thick flannel, and the heat kept up by means of a moderately warm flat-iron applied to ..."

3. Putnam's Household Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1916)
"An electric hot-pad for warming the bed on cold nights. These are absolutely safe and sanitary as they are covered with a pad that can be washed. ..."

4. Manual of operative surgery by John Fairbairn Binnie (1921)
"Bit by bit remove the hot pad from the wound; pick up with forceps any bleeding vessels; ligate the vessels. Apply to the wound pads wrung out of hot water ..."

5. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1890)
"The bandage is put on for about an hour after each meal. Kevin ,H describes the so-called hot pad and binder of the ..."

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