Crossword clues for trivet
trivet
- Kitchen stand
- It could be under the kettle
- Holder for a hot dish
- Serving-dish holder
- Support for a hot pot
- Support for a hot dish
- Stand under something hot
- Stand on a table
- Stand of a kind
- Stand for one's meal?
- Stand for kettle
- Stand for hot dishes
- Stand for a hot pot
- Plate placed under a hot serving dish
- Hot-pot support
- Hot-platter stand
- Hot-plate stand
- Hot-food stand
- Hot-dish support
- Hot-dish mount
- Dinner table protector
- Buffer between a hot plate and a dinner table
- Bowl supporter
- Serving aid
- Three-legged stand for a hot dish
- Table saver
- Stand on the dinner table
- Stand on short feet
- 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
- Plate for holding hot dishes
- Hot-dish stand
- Spot for a hot pot
- Fireplace accessory
- Hot-plate holder
- Table protector
- Stand under a hot dish
- Metal stand
- Cooking stand
- Hot-dish holder
- Hot pot spot
- Hot dish stand
- Hot dish holder
- Stand for a hot dish
- Hot dish supporter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trivet \Triv"et\, n. [Probably through French fr. L. tripes, -edis, three-footed; tri- (see Tri-)+ pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. tr['e]pied. See Foot, and cf. Tripod.]
A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]
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A weaver's knife. See Trevat.
--Knight.Trivet table, a table supported by three legs.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire 2 a stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster 3 A weaver's knife. See (term trevat English).
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
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 comes from Latin tripes meaning "tripod"). Metal trivets are often tripod-like structures with three legs to support the trivet horizontally in order to hold the dish or pot above the table surface. These are often included with modern non-electric pressure cookers. A trivet may often contain a receptacle for a candle that can be lit to keep food warm.
A three-legged design is optimal because it eliminates wobbling on uneven surfaces.
Modern trivets are made from metal, wood, ceramic, fabric, silicone or cork.
When roasting any meat in an oven, trivet racks - which typically fit into roasting pans - are often used to enable the meat joint to be held above the direct heat of the roasting pan and allow the juices of the joint to drip into the roasting pan for the subsequent making of gravy.
Category:Cooking utensils
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.