Pothook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pothook is a noun meaning An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
Meaning
An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
More Meanings
- A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.
Example Sentences
An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.
Word Forms
- pothooks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pot-hook, pothanger, potholder, pothole, firepot, cottrel.
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