trivet

trivet, 19th century replica

English

Etymology

Old English trefet, from Latin tripes, ‘tripod’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtrɪvɪt/

Noun

trivet (plural trivets)

1. A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire
   • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

     They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.

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

Translations

stand with three short legs

Armenian: կասկարա (hy) (kaskara) Finnish: kolmijalka (fi)

French: trépied (fr), chevrette (fr) Serbo-Croatian: tronožac (sh), tronog (sh) Welsh: trybedd (cy) f.

stand to support hot dishes and protect the table

Finnish: pannunalunen (fi) French: dessous-de-plat (fr) m.

Swedish: grytunderlägg (sv) n.

See also

• as right as a trivet