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trivet

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trivet
A low support for a surveying instrument where a tripod cannot be used.
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Right as a trivet all the time, and punctual at your meals.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
- - - - - - - Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat; A trivet table and ignobler seat, The Prince assigns--- Odyssey, Book 21.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
The noise of footsteps on the creaking stairs, a few minutes after the occurrence of this conversation, roused the merry old gentleman as he sat over the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his hand; a pocket-knife in his right; and a pewter pot on the trivet.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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