trivet

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Her face was flooded with colour as she raised her piteous blue eyes to him, and her hand shook as he drew it through his arm You'll be as right as a trivet--I don't know what a trivet is, by the way--before very long," he assured her.

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

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  • (16 April 2008) - For people like me who never know how much pasta to cook (it's always either too much or too little and I'm either unsatiated or have two days of leftovers), Konstatin Slawinski of ding3000 solves the issue with his SL16 Noooodle, a chrome device that measures amounts of spaghetti for up to four people and doubles as a trivet. —  Cool Hunting
  • For people like me who never know how much pasta to cook (it's always either too much or too little and I'm either unsatiated or have two days of leftovers), Konstatin Slawinski of ding3000 solves the issue with his SL16 Noooodle, a chrome device that measures amounts of spaghetti for up to four people and doubles as a trivet. —  Cool Hunting
  • Cutting board removes for easy collection of crumbs and doubles as an excellent cooling rack, trivet or serving tray. —  dealspl.us
  • • Removable slotted cutting grill doubles as a trivet and cooling rack. —  dealspl.us
  • I'm right as a trivet," cried Tom; and to prove it he turned quickly over on his face propped himself up on his hands, with his elbows well bent, and then gave a sharp downward thrust which threw him up so that he stood well balanced once more upon his stout wooden legs That's right," said Aleck, after a glance at the half-submerged boat. —  The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap
 

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  1. Middle English trevet, stand for cooking vessels, from Old English trefet, probably alteration (influenced by Old English thrifēte, three-footed) of Latin tripēs, triped- : tri-, tri- + pēs, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also trevet; early modern English also tryvet, trivette, trevett; from Middle English treved, trevid, from Old French trepied, trepie, tripied = Old Spanish trevede, trendes = Old Italian trepie, trepiedi, trespido, trespito, from Middle Latin tripes (triped-), a three-footed stool, a tripod, from Latin tripes (triped-), having three feet, from tres (tri-), three, + pes (ped-) = English foot. Cf. tripod, ult. a doublet of trivet. For the form, cf. the equivalent D. drievoet = Middle Low German drivot, drevot, a trivet, = English three-foot.
  2. Formerly also trevat; origin obscure.
 

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