It was registered as the "pothook" brand, but it was known far and side as the "straddle bug.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3] Reference
He chose the door on the left which opened into a spacious kitchen where, quivering with fright, a man and a woman crouched beside the hearth in which, suspended from a pothook, a seething cauldron stank of lye. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
The trenches ran along in a pothook shape from Rhododendron Spur down to the Cheshire Ridge, on the north side. From Wordnik.com. [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference
I have studied every pothook and trammel of his first literary performance, to see what rays of genius could be discovered. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete] Reference
Sophie would demand from her seat by the pothook; and Mrs. Cloke would answer, smoothing her knees, "For the sake of the place.". From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
There were words on the paper, written in stiff German characters, orthodox and methodical in every turn and upstroke and formal pothook. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dream Stories] Reference
He may write in the Munich style, or after the manner of the Düsseldorf ready writers, or the modern French pothook and hanger, or the antiquated Dutch. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914] Reference
Homestead; she got the children beyond the hanger and pothook stage of writing and filled their minds, hitherto worried by family cares, with legend and fairy-tale. From Wordnik.com. [Captivity] Reference
Wheeling round, he saw a quaint figure -- a huge nose like a pothook, high, massive shoulders, enormous, well-shaped hands, a general impression of uncouthness combined with vigour and geniality. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspirations of Jean Servien] Reference
Above a fire at the camp centre a kettle simmered on its pothook, being stirred at this moment by a brown and aged crone in frivolous-patterned calico, who wore gold hoops in her ears and bangles at her neck and bracelets of silver on her arms -- bejewelled, indeed, most unbecomingly for a person of her years. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Twin] Reference
They were repulsed only when the farmer’s wife, screaming with despair and using a strength that seemed remarkable in so scrawny a woman, snatched the cauldron from the pothook and threw it at the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
On one occasion, while inspecting the arms and accoutrements of our regiments, when he came to inspect Company H he said, "Shentlemens, vatfor you make de pothook out of de sword and de bayonet, and trow de cartridge-box in de mud?. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
The ureters, like a pothook. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
= garrapato = pothook. From Wordnik.com. [Novelas Cortas] Reference
Will it ever be next morning the postal unionist’s (officially called carrier’s, Letters Scotch, Limited) strange fate (Fierceendgiddyex he’s hight, d.e., the losel that hucks around missivemaids’ gummibacks) to hand in a huge chain envelope, written in seven divers stages of ink, from blanch-essance to lavandaiette, every pothook and pancrook bespaking the wisherwife, superscribed and subpencilled by yours A Laugh-able Party, with afterwite, S.A.G., to Hyde and Cheek, Eden — berry, Dubblenn, WC?. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
"On a December night," said the old woman, "one of them came to ask permission to prepare a great midnight banquet in the kitchen of the castle, which, vaster than a chapter-house, was furnished with casseroles, frying-pans, earthen saucepans, kettles, pans, portable-ovens, gridirons, boilers, dripping-pans, dutch-ovens, fish-kettles, copper-pans, pastry-moulds, copper-jugs, goblets of gold and silver, and mottled wood, not to mention iron roasting-jacks, artistically forged, and the huge black cauldron which hung from the pothook. From Wordnik.com. [Honey-Bee 1911] Reference
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