trivet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
    — They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.
  2. A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
  3. A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.

词形变化

trivets plural trevet alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
trivet table
相关词
right as a trivet coaster

词源

PIE word
*tréyes
From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
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