Northern English and Scottish dialect word for a pot-hook or adjustable iron crane hung over a hearth fire, used to suspend cooking pots at varying heights.
Northern English and Scottish dialect word for a pot-hook or adjustable iron crane hung over a hearth fire, used to suspend cooking pots at varying heights. Also spelled 'reckon' or 'reckoning-iron'. Part of the vocabulary of open-hearth cookery that became obsolete when enclosed iron ranges replaced open fires in the 19th century.
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(UK, _, dialectal, Northern England) A chain or bar drilled with holes to accommodate pot-hooks from which cooking vessels can be suspended over a fire; a pot-hook.
An impression or opinion.
An impression or opinion.
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
She slid the pot higher on the reckan to slow the simmer while she kneaded the bread.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A hook to hang a pot on.
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