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a broad-bottomed pot or pan

short for 鍋料理 (nabe ryōri, literally pot + cooking) or 鍋物 (nabemono, literally pot + thing), a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish

by extension from the sense of someone working with pots and pans: a maidservant

by further extension from the sense of maidservant: a woman

during the late Edo period, a 搗米屋 (tsukigomeya, rice polisher shop, white rice retailer) who has run out of stock

Source: wiktionary.org