† pot hangingsn.
Obsolete.
With plural agreement: = pot-clip n. Also: a pair of pot-hooks.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > bar or chain for hanging
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1521 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 119 Item a gredyern, and a andern, a payr of poott hangyngs, and frynge pan.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 182 Vnes ancestes, a payre of potte hangynges.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 257/1 Potte hangynges, cremilliere.
1564 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 52 Two pothangynges 0 8.
1625 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1966) 37 The pothangings & Crockes..the panns poddingers & other pewter.
1662 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 376 Iron skilletts and a frying pan, 12s.; a paire of pot hangings & a paire of Tongs, 10s.
1775 Inventory of John Whitenaugh Frederick County (Maryland) Will Bk. in www.xmission.com (O.E.D. Archive) To Pot hangings, Tongs Lamp and Candlestick at 0 8 0.
1827 Inventory of Jacob Sinex New-Castle County (Delaware) Rec. Office in freepages. genealogy.rootsweb.com (O.E.D. Archive) Andirons the largest...Shovel tongs & pothangings...1 Rocking Cradle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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