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trivet

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
  2. noun A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
  3. noun A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.

Similar words

trivet table trevette trevet cottrel kettle king footman thible firepot kiver potstick

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in and or on over to is with for

Word family

trivets

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