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Trivet
//ˈtɹɪv.ɪt// noun
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Noun
- 1 A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
"They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil."
- 2 a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table wordnet
- 3 A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
- 4 a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth wordnet
- 5 A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
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