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Blade-Hunting in Barnsley

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.
 
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scrteened porch said:
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.
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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! :)
 
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