trivet1 (trivet)

[Also trevet; early mod. E. also tryvet, trivette, trevett; a trivet, E. three-foot.] 1. A three-footed tripod on which to place cooking-ve els or anything which is to be kept hot by the fire. He shulde fynde in one place a friyngpan, in an other a chauldron, here a tryuet , and there a spytte, and these in maner in euery pore mannes house. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 145). She got up to set the pot of coffee back on the trivet . E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxii. 2. In her., a bearing representing the three and Hooker, 1883),