trivet
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]| PIE word |
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| *tréyes |
From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪ.vɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪvɪt
Noun
[edit]trivet (plural trivets)
- A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
- 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
- They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.
- A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
- Synonym: pot stand
- A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]stand with three short legs
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stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Trivet”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Middle English
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[edit]trivet
- Alternative form of trevet
Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]trivet n
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