# Pothook

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{{short description|Implement for suspending a pot over fire}}
{{distinguish|Pothoek}}
thumb|A metal pothook
A '''pothook''' (or '''pot hook''') is an S-shaped [metal](/source/metal) hook for suspending a [pot](/source/cooking_pot) over a [fire](/source/fire).

==Usage==
While one extremity of the pothook is hooked to the handle of the pot, the other is caught upon an [iron](/source/iron) crane moving on a [pivot](/source/wiktionary%3APivot) over the fire. Later [stove](/source/stove)s obviated the necessity for this arrangement, but in the early twentieth century it was still to be seen in great numbers of country [cottage](/source/cottage)s and [farmhouse](/source/farmhouse) [kitchen](/source/kitchen)s all over [England](/source/England), and in small [artisan's](/source/artisan) houses in the West Midlands and the North.

==Writing==
In the elementary teaching of writing, a glyph of similar shape is called a pothook.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Camp Cooking Pot Hook.svg|A wooden camp cooking pot hook
File:2013_Japan_-_Takamori_Dengaku_Hozonaki_(11148675595).jpg|A Japanese [Irori](/source/Irori) with Jizaikagi
File:BLW Wrought Iron Pot-Hook.jpg|A wrought iron pot hook
File:Spitzfeder mit Strich und Schriftbeispiel.jpg|A steel nib with a sample of writing (A b c: the ascender of the "b" is an example of a pothook)
File:Jäppilä.vaakuna.svg|Pothook pictured in the coat of arms of [Jäppilä](/source/J%C3%A4ppil%C3%A4)
</gallery>

==References and notes==
{{reflist}}
{{EB1911|wstitle=Pothook}}

== See also ==
{{wiktionary}}
* [Trammel hook](/source/Trammel_hook)

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Category:Food preparation utensils
Category:Fire

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