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Trivet

noun

A three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth.

A stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table.

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"Trivet" Quotes from Famous Books

... Knight agreed confidently; he had looked in from the shop for a moment. 'Oh yes! It will pass off. Give him a cup of strong tea in a quarter of an hour, and he'll be as right as a trivet.' ...

— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett

... Timmis—"consider yourself elected; I can carry any thing there. I'm quite the cock of the walk, and no mistake. Next Thursday's a field-day—I'll introduce you. Lord! you'll soon be right as a trivet." ...

— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... from the kitchen-range an iron trivet whose legs will supply a solid foundation for the engine which I am devising. This is a coarse network of strips of raphia, a fairly accurate imitation of the network of couch-grass roots. The very irregular meshes are nowhere wide enough to admit of the passage of the creature ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... the embers were raked up, the trivet stuck a-top, the savoury broil made ready; and (all but Grace, who would not taste a morsel, but went up straight to bed) never had the Actons yet sate down ...

— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper

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