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Trivet

noun
1.
A three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth.
2.
A stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table.





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"Trivet" Quotes from Famous Books



... Knight agreed confidently; he had looked in from the shop for a moment. 'Oh yes! It will pass off. Give him a cup of strong tea in a quarter of an hour, and he'll be as right as a trivet.' ...
— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett
... "Right as a trivet here, Dad," replied the young man, dropping the cold hand that still persisted in clinging to his own. "But I guess you've got the wrong ...
— The Courage of Captain Plum • James Oliver Curwood
... point; but the moral loveliness at my elbow blotted all else out; and when I found that one of them was crying, poor soul, quietly under her veil, I cried a little myself; then I felt as right as a trivet, only a little crushed to be there so uselessly. I thought it was a sin and a shame she should feel unhappy; I turned round to her, and said something like this: 'Ladies, God Himself is here to give you welcome. I'm sure it is good for me to be ...
— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson
... as sound as a trivet!" said she. And then: "Sophy, guess who was here last evening." Her eyes began to shine. "Mrs. Cheshire Scarboro; no less!" And she paused, to let that ...
— A Woman Named Smith • Marie Conway Oemler


Words linked to "Trivet" :   pedestal, base, stand


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