Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bent or hooked piece of iron for hanging a pot or kettle over a fire.
- noun A curved iron rod with a hooked end used for lifting hot pots, irons, or stove lids.
- noun A curved, S-shaped mark made in writing.
- noun Illegible handwriting or aimless scribbling.
- noun Informal Stenographic writing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hook, secured in a chimney in any manner (as upon a crane), for supporting a pot over a fire.
- noun A short bar or rod of iron, usually curved, and with a hook at the end, used to lift hot pots, irons, or stove-lids from a stove.
- noun A letter, character, or curve shaped like a pothook (def. 1); an elementary character consisting of a stroke terminating in a curve, practised upon by children in learning to write; hence, any irregular, straggling written character. Also
pot-hanger .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
- noun A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An S-shaped iron
hook used to suspend acooking pot over afire - noun A
crooked stroke inwriting ; ascrawl
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire
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Examples
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It was registered as the "pothook" brand, but it was known far and side as the "straddle bug."
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The undue compression of type laterally, the exaggeration of thick and thin, the feeble pothook terminations in modern type are due to one form of degeneration being added upon another for some centuries, a tracing of a tracing.
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The undue compression of type laterally, the exaggeration of thick and thin, the feeble pothook terminations in modern type are due to one form of degeneration being added upon another for some centuries, a tracing of a tracing.
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Spiller looked in the pot suspended from a pothook over the fire.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Spiller looked in the pot suspended from a pothook over the fire.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Spiller looked in the pot suspended from a pothook over the fire.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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He chose the door on the left which opened into a spacious kitchen where, quivering with fright, a man and a woman crouched beside the hearth in which, suspended from a pothook, a seething cauldron stank of lye.
Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988
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The pothook, with its big cooking pot, appeared, with variations in size and adjustability, in kitchens through the eighteenth century and, in rural areas, even later.59 Andirons, holding the burning logs, stood below the pot; the prudent cook kept a good supply of glowing coals to arrange as needed.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The most notable feature was the pothook, or cremaillière, a substantial wrought-iron support, usually adjustable, from which cooking pots could be hung above the fire.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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The pothook, with its big cooking pot, appeared, with variations in size and adjustability, in kitchens through the eighteenth century and, in rural areas, even later.59 Andirons, holding the burning logs, stood below the pot; the prudent cook kept a good supply of glowing coals to arrange as needed.
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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