trevet

See trivet.

trevet (plural trevets)

1. (archaic) A stool or other three-legged stand; a trivet.

• “trevet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Vetter, vetter

• trefd, treved, trivet, triwet, tryvett

From Old English trefet and Old Northern French trevet, both ultimately from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtrɛvɛt/, /ˈtrivɛt/

trevet

1. trivet, tripod

• English: trivet

• “trivet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.