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▪ I. trivet|ˈtrɪvɪt|
Forms: ? 1 trefet, 5 trevid, treued, trefet, -ett, 5–6 trevette, 5–9 trevet, 6 trevyt, treyvette, trivette, tryvette, 6–7 trevett, tryvet, trivett, 7 trifet, 7–9 trevit, (9 dial. trewit), 6– trivet.
[Trefet occurs in a 12th c. copy of a 10th c. document (see below), otherwise it is not known till the 15th c.; it appears to be this word, and to represent L. triped-em, nom. tripēs three-footed, f. tri- three + pēs, ped-foot; cf. OF. trepied, tripié, trespieds, trippet2.
11..Rec. Gifts of Adeluuold (963–84) in Birch Cart. Sax. III. 367, vi bidenfate & ii cuflas & þry troᵹas & lead & trefet & ix winterstellas & i fedelsswin.]
1. A three-footed stand or support: = tripod A. 3, 4. Now rare exc. as in b.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 37 b, And by sayenge of theyr pater noster make a treuet go rounde about the hous. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 23 A large Balneo, wherein you may place sixe or eight glasse bodies..each of them fastened to a leaden trivet, yt they may stand steady in the water. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. ii. §14 (1712) 47 Who perceiving that his Iron Trevet..had three Feet and could stand expected also that it should walk. 1782Beckford Italy, &c. (1834) I. v. 347 [They] shifted their trivets from cow to cow. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 146 Abdullah made a trivet of reeds, and balancing thereupon his long matchlock..he fired.
b. spec. A stand for a pot, kettle, or other vessel placed over a fire for cooking or heating something: orig. and properly standing on three feet; now often with one or two vertical projections by which it may be secured on the top bar of a grate.
1416Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls Bundle 10 No. 3 Districtus est per 1 trevet, 1 patell. de eneo. c1483Caxton Dialogues 8/5 The ladle of the pot about the fyre; Treuet for to sette it on. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 36 Put the same into a newe pot, set it by the fyre vpon a treuet. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋23 This Caldron is set upon a good strong Iron Trevet. 1755Hales in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 342 In Devonshire, they set the pans of milk on trivets, making fires under them, to give the milk..a scalding. 1838Dickens O. Twist xii, He sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his left hand..and a pewter pot on the trivet. 1875M. Collins Sweet & Twenty i. xviii, A defiant kettle sang upon a trivet.
c. Her. A bearing representing the three-footed stand used in cooking, usually as viewed from above, the three feet being shown around the edge.
a1550in Baring-Gould & Twigge's West. Armory (1898) 3 Arg: a trivet sab. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 7/2 He beareth Argent, a three square Trevett, sable.
†d. pl. dialectal (trewets, truets): see quot.
1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 77 Trewets or Truets, Pattens for Women, Suff.
e. Applied allusively to prehistoric stone structures. (See also quot. 1892 in 4.)
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 643/1 These..greate stones..which some vaynlye term the old Gyaunts Trivetts.
†2. A three-footed vessel, as a pot, cauldron, etc.; chiefly Antiq. = tripod A. 1. Obs.
1547–64Bauldwin Mor. Philos. (Palfr.) 10 Certaine fishers found a golden tresle or triuet. 1612North's Plutarch 1231 Pausanias..offered a triuet of gold vnto the temple of Delphes. 1676Hobbes Iliad ix. 118 Seven fire new Trevets.
†b. = tripod A. 2. Obs.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1238/1 Who suppose euerie blast of their mouth to come foorth of Trophonius den, and that they spake from the triuet. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. iii. (1642) 205 Shee [Cumana Sibylla] composed her selfe upon a golden Trifet, and..uttered what by Inspiration was suggested to her.
3. Phr. as right as a trivet, thoroughly or perfectly right (in reference to a trivet's always standing firm on its three feet).
1835Hood Dead Robbery x, ‘I'm right’, thought Bunce, ‘as any trivet’. 1837Dickens Pickw. I, ‘I hope you are well, sir’. ‘Right as a trivet, sir’, replied Bob Sawyer. 1868Helps Realmah ii. (1876) 24 All goes as right as a trivet.
4. attrib. Three-footed; having three feet, legs, or supports: = tripod B. 1.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 45 To Tomas pewterer for..a trefet vesel iiij.d. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. viii. Baucis 84 The Trivet-Table of a Foot was lame. 1892H. Owen in Owen's Descr. Pembrokeshire 254 note, [They call the stone Gromlegh..There are other stones..in the Countrey adioyneinge as Legh y tribedd neere Ricordstone..] ‘The trivet (or tripod) stone’,..so called because of its three supporters.
Hence ˈtrivetwise adv., in the manner of a trivet.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 418 The fireplaces are three stones or clods, placed trivetwise upon the ground.
▪ II. trivet
variant of trevat. |