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Trivet   Listen
noun
Trivet  n.  
1.
A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. (Written also trevet)
2.
A weaver's knife. See Trevat.
Trivet table, a table supported by three legs.





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"Trivet" Quotes from Famous Books



... hanna found that th' witch ha' suffered thereby. An, lastly, ey ha' let myself blood, when the moon wur at full, an in opposition to th' owd hag's planet, an minglin' it wi' sawt, ha' burnt it i' a trivet, in hopes of afflictin' her; boh without avail, fo' ey seed her two days ago, an she flouted me an scoffed at me. What mun ey do, good mesters? What mun ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... else in the world, since he knew he could n't be a pirate, when his mother came to the fireplace with a layer of corn-meal dough spread on a baking-board. She placed the board in a slanting position against an iron trivet before the glowing bed of coals, and set a pot of beans in the ashes to warm. "Keep an eye on that johnny-cake," she said to Daniel, "and don't let it burn." Then she turned away ...
— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


Words linked to "Trivet" :   pedestal, base, stand


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