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Hot dish stand
Answer for the clue "Hot dish stand ", 6 letters:
trivet
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
three-legged iron stand, 12c., trefet , probably from a noun use of Latin tripedem (nominative tripes ) "three-footed," from tri- "three" (see three ) + pes "foot" (see foot (n.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A trivet is an object placed between a serving dish or bowl , and a dining table , usually to protect the table from heat or water damage. Trivet also refers to a tripod used to elevate pots from the coals of an open fire (the word trivet itself ultimately ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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
Usage examples of trivet.
Smallweed perpetually twitching her head and chattering at the trivets and Mr. Smallweed requiring to be repeatedly shaken up like a large black draught.
The four old faces then hover over teacups like a company of ghastly cherubim, Mrs. Smallweed perpetually twitching her head and chattering at the trivets and Mr.
A dozen antique stores, their windows crammed with tea tables, presidential campaign buttons, sconces, trivets, tinware, scraps of faded rugs, elegant Victorian tools.
In spite of the unaccountable negligence of the young lady's abigail, in having omitted to pack the special cordial in either of her bandboxes, she ventured to say that Miss was already on the high road to recovery, and, if left to lie quietly in a darkened room for half an hour or so, would presently be as right as a trivet.
Regina doubted that Barbie had much interest in anything physical from anyone, and in that regard was probably similar to Regina's mother, who for as long as Regina could remember had been far more interested in collectibles, such as cast-iron banks, old coffee and tobacco cans, and trivets, than in wild, erotic same-sex or opposite-sex or even self-sex.
Dean took the biscuits out, set the baking sheet directly on a trivet on the table.
On the mantel were candle molds, a coffee mill, an iron and trivet, and a rusty kettle.
Mouse had little wrought-iron trivets and other old-time dohickeys all over his quarters.
I put them on a wooden trivet on the counter, then removed the little bowl of yogurt and green onions from the fridge.
Certainly, they cooked on their ships, and it would make sense to set a hot pot on a trivet to prevent wooden surfaces in the galley from getting burned.
While Crimm anguished over erotic, unseemly images, the First Lady thought of her growing stash of trivets in the linen closet and panicked.
One of these days, she feared, he was going to walk into one of the linen closets and clank into the growing stack of antique trivets on the heart-of-pine floor.
George put the coffeepot on a trivet that bore a joke in Pennsylvania Dutch argot, and broke out a tin box of cookies, mostly broken.
Once m'sister signs, then he will, too, and all will be right as a trivet.
I just kill a few children and old ladies, and then I'm right as a trivet again.