What is the meaning of 鍋?
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
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