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pothooks

pothooks is the plural of pothook.

Meaning of pothook

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

Questions about pothooks

What is pothooks the plural of?
Pothooks is the plural of pothook.

Words near pothooks in the dictionary

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

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