casserole

noun

1. (countable)A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
2. (countable, uncountable)Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.

   “a chicken casserole”

3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.

verb

1. (transitive)To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.

   “Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]”