Crossword clues for pothook
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pothook \Pot"hook`\, n.
An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. ``I long to be spelling her Arabic scrawls and pothooks.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire 2 A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl
WordNet
n. an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pothook".
By the time he came back, Sergeant Brock had rigged a greenstick pothook to hang the kettle over the fire.
No matter, Battista Grassi is up behind her, pounces on her, claps his fat test-tube over her, puts a grubby thumb over the mouth of the test-tube, paws over his prize and pulls her apart, scrawls little cramped pothooks in his notebook.
The feeble fingers were never idle, and one of her pleasures was to make little things for the school children daily passing to and fro, to drop a pair of mittens from her window for a pair of purple hands, a needlebook for some small mother of many dolls, penwipers for young penmen toiling through forests of pothooks, scrapbooks for picture-loving eyes, and all manner of pleasant devices, till the reluctant climbers of the ladder of learning found their way strewn with flowers, as it were, and came to regard the gentle giver as a sort of fairy godmother, who sat above there, and showered down gifts miraculously suited to their tastes and needs.
His fond mother gives him a box of coloured chalks and every loose bit of paper is rapidly covered with strange pothooks and scrawls which represent houses and horses and terrible naval battles.
He inked a quill and wrote out the warrant in his own hand, signing it at the bottom in both our own alphabet and the Arabic pothooks and squiggles he'd grown up with.
He inked a quill and wrote out the warrant in his own hand, signing it at the bottom in both our own alphabet and the Arabic pothooks and squig gles he'd grown up with.
He parked the carpet in front of a place whose sign had two words in the Roman alphabet—DVIN DELI—and a cou ple of lines in the curious pothooks Armenians use to write their language.
The pothooks and andirons that held a black iron cauldron over the low flames were a hundred and eighty years old, and had spent the last couple of generations in a museum, but they were still functional.