brandreth
Americannoun
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a wooden fence around a well.
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an iron tripod or trivet placed over a fire.
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any similar support or framework.
Etymology
Origin of brandreth
1350–1400; Middle English < Old Norse brandreith grate, equivalent to brand brand + reith vehicle (cognate with road, raid ); replacing Old English brandrād trivet and brandrida fire-grate
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She sat on a three-legg’d steal, and a dim coal smook’d within the rim of a brandreth, oor which a seety rattencreak hung dangling fra a black randletree.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
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