trivet
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of trivet
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
“They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.”
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noun
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A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
“They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.”
- A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
- A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
Words you can make from trivet
27 playable · top: RIVET (8 pts)
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4 words4-letter words
7 words3-letter words
9 words2-letter words
6 wordsHooks
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