1) Claw 2) Cooking utensil 3) Hook 4) Kitchen hanger 5) Metallic S-shaped piece 
Pothooks are S-shaped metal hooks for suspending a pot over a fire. While one extremity is hooked to the handle of the pot, the other is caught upon an iron crane moving on a pivot over the fire. Modern stoves have obviated the necessity for this arrangement, but it is still to be seen in great numbers of country cottages and farmhouse kitchens al...
• (n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing. • (n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.
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[n] - an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire
noun an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire