Blade-Hunting in Barnsley

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Hey, speaking of spiders,
Around these parts, or probably rather farther south, a spider is a frying pan with legs for use in the coals at the bottom of a fireplace. Or also a frame, consisting of a rim on legs, for supporting a pot over the coals in the bottom of a fireplace.

 

[Jack Black]

Hey, speaking of spiders,
Around these parts, or probably rather farther south, a spider is a frying pan with legs for use in the coals at the bottom of a fireplace. Or also a frame, consisting of a rim on legs, for supporting a pot over the coals in the bottom of a fireplace. It might be Celtic rather than English, if I'm right in attributing it to Appalachia. I know my own Great-Great-Grandma cooked in a pot on a crane that swung in and out of the fireplace, rather than on spiders, in Great Haseley, Oxfordshire.

Very interesting. I've not heard of those pans before. The name 'spider' is used for various things here, so not sure exactly what the old girl was after!