Definitions for trivets

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trivets triv·et

Spelling: [triv-it]

IPA: /ˈtrɪv ɪt/

Trivets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in trivets (eirsttv).

Definitions for trivets

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 trivets

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 trivets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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