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A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
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Synonyms: pot stand
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A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.
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Synonyms: trevat, trevette, truvat
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a stand with short feet used under a hot dish on a table
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: base, pedestal, stand
a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth
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Broader terms: base, pedestal, stand
PIE word *tréyes From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
կասկարա
(kaskara)
— stand with three short legs
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Bulgarian:
пирости́я
(pirostíja)
— stand with three short legs
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Bulgarian:
трино́жник
(trinóžnik)
— stand with three short legs
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Burmese:
ဖိုခုံလောက်
(hpuihkumlauk)
— stand with three short legs
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Catalan:
trespeus
— stand with three short legs
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Cebuano:
sug-ang
— stand with three short legs
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Czech:
třínožka
— stand with three short legs
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Czech:
trojnožka
— stand with three short legs
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Finnish:
kolmijalka
— stand with three short legs
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French:
trépied
— stand with three short legs
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Galician:
trepia
— stand with three short legs
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Galician:
trespés
— stand with three short legs
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Greek:
πυροστιά
(pyrostiá)
— stand with three short legs
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Hungarian:
háromlábú állvány
— stand with three short legs
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Japanese:
五徳
(gotoku)
— stand with three short legs
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Macedonian:
пирустија
(pirustija)
— stand with three short legs
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Middle English:
trevet
— stand with three short legs
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Norman:
terpid
— stand with three short legs
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Polish:
trójnóg
— stand with three short legs
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Portuguese:
tripé
— stand with three short legs
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Portuguese:
trempe
— stand with three short legs
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Russian:
тага́н
(tagán)
— stand with three short legs
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Russian:
трено́жник
(trenóžnik)
— stand with three short legs
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Serbo-Croatian:
тро̀ножац
— stand with three short legs
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Serbo-Croatian:
тро̀ног
— stand with three short legs
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Serbo-Croatian:
trònožac
— stand with three short legs
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Serbo-Croatian:
trònog
— stand with three short legs
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Swedish:
trefot
— stand with three short legs
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Turkish:
üçayak
— stand with three short legs
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Welsh:
trybedd
— stand with three short legs
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Finnish:
pannunalunen
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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French:
dessous-de-plat
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Hungarian:
edényalátét
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Polish:
trójnóg
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Portuguese:
descanso
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Russian:
подста́вка
(podstávka)
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Swedish:
grytunderlägg
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Swedish:
karottunderlägg
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
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Turkish:
nihale
— stand to support hot dishes and protect the table
