trivet🔊

A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.

💬 Quotations

They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.

📑 Synonyms: pot stand

A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.

📑 Synonyms: trevat trevette truvat

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