pot-hook
pot-hook is the alternative spelling of pothook.
Meaning of pothook
Noun
pothook (plural pothooks)
- An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
- A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.
- 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...1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
Forms of pot-hook
| plural | pot-hooks |
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Questions about pot-hook
- What is pot-hook the alternative spelling of?
- Pot-hook is the alternative spelling of pothook.
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