Chimney hook
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| a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, |
See also: Chimney
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in classic literature
He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two
chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel or cross-bar, plumed with soot which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
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