Definitions for trivet

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trivet triv·et

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IPA: /ˈtrɪv ɪt/

Trivet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in trivet (eirttv).

Definitions for trivet

noun

1. a small metal plate with short legs, especially one put under a hot platter or dish to protect a table.
2. a three-footed or three-legged stand or support, especially one of iron placed over a fire to support cooking vessels or the like.
3. a special knife for cutting pile loops, as of velvet or carpets.

Origin of trivet

1375-1425; late Middle English trevet, Old English trefet, apparently blend of Old English thrifēte three-footed and Latin triped-, stem of tripēs three-footed (with Vulgar Latin -e- for Lati

Examples for trivet

Toppin's as right as a trivet again, and as warm as a toast.

The date of the trivet is 1668, and on the top is also engraved the owner's monogram.

Though to be sure I do not know what being as right as a trivet is, any more than I did then.

Give him a cup of strong tea in a quarter of an hour, and he'll be as right as a trivet.'

trivet says that lla died at the end of nine months after this.

I'll hot some cocoa for you last thing and leave it on the trivet.

An old saucepan has been reared up in the corner, and there is a trivet on the hearth.

The pot was taken from the trivet, and placed upon the grass.

trivet puts it differently—'he heaped the death hugely on the maid.'

Then I'll make him some strong coffee, and he'll be as right as a trivet.