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Definition of Pothook
1. Noun. An S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire.
Definition of Pothook
1. n. An
Definition of Pothook
1. Noun. An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire ¹
2. Noun. A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pothook
1. a hook for lifting or hanging pots [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pothook
Literary usage of Pothook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Acts and Resolves Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Maine by Maine (1887)
"... and pothook Brooks aud their tributaries. Be it enacted by the /Senate and
House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows : hook brooks, ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"There were two brothers once who lived on two farms close together, and one of
them had a pothook* making at a forge some distance away, ..."
3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"So he said to the wife, as he couldn't do anything else he would go to the forge
for the pothook. So he put on a heavy frieze coat and went to the forge and ..."
4. Excavations at Pylos in Elis by John E. Coleman (1986)
"pothook spiral alternating with nearly rectangular motifs flanked by ... 4, below)
has a similar pothook spiral, apparently alternating with another motif. ..."
5. The Homes of Other Days: A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in by Thomas Wright (1871)
"The racking-crook was the pothook. ... was probably a sort of pothook or jack.
Nearly the same list of articles occurs frequently in subsequent inventories. ..."
6. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England from Edward I. to Richard II. by John Henry Parker (1853)
"The manor of Broughton Aluph, Wilmington, in Kent, was anciently held by tenure
of finding for the king " one pothook for his meat" whenever he should go to ..."
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