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pothook

pothook noun: an S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.

pothook: an S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire
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Noun

pothook (plural pothooks)

  1. An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
  2. 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 pothook

pluralpothooks

Origin of pothook

From pot + hook.

Questions about pothook

What does pothook mean?
Pothook means an S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
What part of speech is pothook?
Pothook is a noun.
What is the plural of pothook?
The plural of pothook is pothooks.

Words near pothook in the dictionary

  1. potholer
  2. potholers
  3. potholes
  4. potholey
  5. potholing
  6. pothook
  7. pothooks
  8. pothos
  9. pothoses
  10. pothouse
  11. pothouse ballad

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