reckan
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.
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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.
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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