0 a deep, round pan with straight sides, usually with a handle and a lid, used for cooking things over heat --
1 a deep cooking pan with a long handle --
I do not dispute that people will go on buying approximately the same proportion of brooms, brushes and saucepans as they might have done before.
Surely, if they have a saucepan and a gas ring they can make jam.
A saucepan was a mystery to many of them.
In my younger days a saucepan was a hideous thing, but now people have spent time in designing a beautifully shaped and well-balanced saucepan.
If a new saucepan or a new kettle is needed, where is the money to be found out of that miserable unemployment allowance?
Every drop of hot water in the house has to be heated in a large saucepan on the gas stove.
One may have a kitchen of limited size or have other reasons for not possessing a whole army of saucepans.
Another possibility is that one may, with a bad conscience, put the saucepan away inadequately cleaned.