Trivet vs Brivet - What's the difference?
trivet | brivet |
a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire
* 1994 ,
a stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a hot coaster
A weaver's knife. See trevat.
(intransitive, British, West Midlands) To wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner.
* 1920 , Eric Leadbitter, Shepherd's warning , page 148
As a noun trivet
is a stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.As a verb brivet is
to wander an area, or look through items, without specific purpose or to satisfy idle curiosity, especially in a furtive and illicit manner.trivet
English
(wp)Noun
(en noun)- They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.
- (Knight)
See also
* as right as a trivetbrivet
English
Alternative forms
* brivitVerb
(brivett)- Once Melanie had left the house, I entered her bedroom and began to brivet around.
- And all the time she'd be brivetting about on the sly with any good-for-nothing young rascals she could get hold on.