bedpan
(noun) a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bedpan (plural bedpans)
A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.
• See chamber pot
Source: Wiktionary
Bed"pan`, n.
1. A pan for warming beds. Nares.
2. A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
