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Definition of Trivet

1. Noun. A three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth.

2. Noun. A stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table.

Definition of Trivet

1. n. A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod.

Definition of Trivet

1. Noun. A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire ¹

2. Noun. A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trivet

1. a small stand having three legs [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trivet

1. 1. A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. Alternative forms: trevet. 2. A weaver's knife. See Trevat. Trivet table, a table supported by three legs. Origin: Probably through French fr. L. Tripes, -edis, three-footed; tri- (see Tri-)+ pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. Trepied. See Foot, and cf. Tripod. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trivet

triungulin triungulins triungulus triunities triunity trivalence trivalent trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine trivalently trivalve

trivalves trivalvular trivariate triverbal triverbial trivet (current term) trivets trivia trivial trivial absolute value

trivial functional dependency trivial name trivial names trivialise trivialised trivialises trivialising trivialism trivialisms trivialist

Literary usage of Trivet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"trivet is also credited with commentaries on Genesis, Exodus, ... There is a manuscript of some commentaries by trivet of this description in the ..."

2. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"Ад iron trivet. То'ко VA'TO. [VATO, a stone. ... Satiated, gorged, glutted ; fallen from the trivet ; in the provinces it is used for ..."

3. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries: From the by Jean Froissart (1839)
"Whilst these men at arms were collecting, and before the arrival of king Henry, sir Thomas trivet resolved to march towards a handsome town in Spain called ..."

4. History of Scotland by Patrick Fraser Tytler (1828)
"I find no mention of this in Hemingford; nor in Fordun, Winton, or trivet. Walsingham's account is vague, and unlike truth. He tells us, that Edward first ..."

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