Trivet

//ˈtɹɪv.ɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table wordnet
  3. 3
    A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
  4. 4
    a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth wordnet
  5. 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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