† ˈpot-ˌhanger Obs.
[f. pot n.1 + hanger2.]
A device for hanging a pot or kettle over the fire; a series of links, a rack, or a bar with a series of holes, on which a pot-hook or crook could be hung at different heights; = hanger2 4 d. Mostly in pl.
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Cramaillére, the pot hanger. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Llares o ollares, pot⁓hangers, ollares catenæ. 1608 Willet Hexapla Exod. 235 They sate by the pot hangers, whereon they vsed to hang their pots. 1617 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 227 Three brass stupens [stewpans], one payer of pott⁓hangers. 1642 in Archives Maryland (1887) IV. 94, 1 Pot⁓hanger and potthooks. 1678–84 Littleton Lat. Dict., Climacter,..pot-hanger or pot-hooks. |