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stew
  1. (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron. [14th-17th c.]
  2. (now historical) A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. [from 14th c.]
  3. (archaic) A brothel. [from 14th c.]
  4. (uncountable, countable) A dish cooked by stewing. [from 18th c.]
  5. (Sussex) A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating; a stew pond.
  6. (US, regional) An artificial bed of oysters.
  7. (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “There was a silence as he served the stew from the small iron pot.”
      “I think Malvo's motivation was a lot more complex, a whole stew of things he didn't understand himself.”
      “Imagine the film as filtered through the lens of an epic anime series, then blended into a stew of Hindu, Buddhist, and Shinto mythology.”
stewpot
  1. A pot used for making stew, usually large and heavy.
  2. (art, literature) A jumble, especially one that lacks intellectual coherence.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The fear of death stirs slowly within my chest cavity, like a stewpot lazily bubbling.”
      “Then I came back in and filled the stewpot with turnips that she had finished.”
      “The results are as expected, a stewpot of personal and social concerns explored with varying degrees of success.”
stew
  1. A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There was a silence as he served the stew from the small iron pot.”
      “I think Malvo's motivation was a lot more complex, a whole stew of things he didn't understand himself.”
      “Imagine the film as filtered through the lens of an epic anime series, then blended into a stew of Hindu, Buddhist, and Shinto mythology.”
stewer
  1. A bird suitable for cooking by stewing.
stewpan
  1. (archaic, cooking) A saucepan used for stewing.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After letting them drain, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, salt, black and red pepper to taste.”
      “Set it in a stewpan that will just hold it, with mutton or beef gravy, half a pint of port wine, with pepper and allspice.”
      “Like fowls, an old turkey is fit for nothing but the stewpan or the stockpot.”
stewing
  1. The act by which something is stewed.
stewings
  1. plural of stewing
stewpans
  1. plural of stewpan
  2. Examples:
    1. “It beat and rang on the Mongolian stewpans left out at the fireplace.”
stewpots
stewers
  1. plural of stewer
stews
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