0 a small clay pot (= a container for cooking or serving food) with a handle sticking out of the side:
A pipkin is an earthenware cooking pot used for cooking over direct heat from coals or a wood fire.
In the ashpit was a heap of potatoes roasting, and a boiling pipkin of charred bread, which they called coffee.
Simple ointment is made by melting in a pipkin by the side of the fire, without boiling, one part of yellow or white wax, and two parts of hog's lard.
