pot-clipn.
/ˈpɒtklɪp/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌklɪp/, Scottish English /ˈpɔtklɪp/ Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). Now historical and rare.
A device for suspending a pot or cauldron over a fire, esp. one consisting of two iron rods jointed together, with hooks at the free ends to hold the brim of the pot.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > bar or chain for hanging
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reckon1400
hake1402
kilp1425
pot-clip1459
pothangles1468
reckon-crook1469
kettle-hook1485
rax1519
pot hangings1521
pot hangerc1525
pot-crookc1530
pot-hook1530
trammel1537
pot-kilp1542
gallow-balk1583
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hanger1599
pot-keep1611
pot rack1619
reckon hook1645
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cotterel1674
rantle-tree1685
rannel-balk1781
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1459–60 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 89 (MED) ij par del Potclyppez.
1472 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 246 (MED) Item, j par de le potcleppes.
1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 266 One broule Iron, vij speights, iiij pair of pottclipps.
1635 in W. Fraser Mem. Earls of Haddington (1889) II. 303 In the kitching..ane pair pot clips.
1691 J. Ray Catal. N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 136 Pot-cleps, Pot-hooks, from clip or clap, because they clap or catch hold of the Pot.
1695 in C. K. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Belief Witchcraft in Scotl. (1884) 238 The crook and pot-clips.
1825 in J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Pot cleps, pot-hooks.
1898 A. M. Earle Home Life Colonial Days 53 Later the back-bars were made of iron. On them were hung iron hooks or chains with hooks of various lengths called pothooks, trammels, hakes, pothangers, pot-claws, pot-clips, pot-brakes, pot-crooks.
1996 J. Robertson Sc. Ghost Stories (1998) x. 136 On the Sunday the pot-crook and pot-clips went missing, and were only found four days later by two neighbours in a loft.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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