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Hot plate   /hɑt pleɪt/   Listen
Hot plate

noun
1.
A portable electric appliance for heating or cooking or keeping food warm.  Synonym: hotplate.






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"Hot plate" Quotes from Famous Books



... all about it," said Lucy, following the old woman hither and thither as she bustled about, talking all the time, and stirring her pan of ginger over the hot plate. ...
— Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... say no-no-no! You doggone little rascal, I'd rather herd a flea on a hot plate! I've a plumb good notion to hog-tie yuh for awhile. Can't trust yuh a minute nowhere. Now look what you got to wear ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... from my friends in some unaccountable way, and toward evening found myself wandering down town near the wharves. It was very dusty and close, and the temperature a slice of Hades served up on a hot plate. There was no need for matches, all you had to do was to put your unlighted cigar in your mouth and puff away. I was trying hard to remember why I had on glasses,—they were of no use in the world to me,—and I was also much astonished to find that I was wearing Seymour's coat ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald



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