1. a small earthenware pot or jar, typically used for cooking
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The cook heated soup in a small clay pipkin over the fire.
• She stored herbs in an old pipkin on the kitchen shelf.
• The museum displayed medieval pipkins used for cooking porridge.
• Grandmother’s pipkin was perfect for making individual servings of stew.
• The archaeologist found fragments of a Roman pipkin at the dig site.