1. an S-shaped hook used to hang pots over a fire
2. a curved or hooked stroke in handwriting, especially one resembling the shape of a pothook

Examples

• The old kitchen had a large fireplace with several pothooks hanging from an iron bar.
• She suspended the cast iron kettle from the pothook over the flames.
• The blacksmith forged a new pothook for the colonial reenactment.
• His handwriting was full of pothooks and illegible scrawls.
• The teacher criticized the student’s pothooks, saying his letters needed to be more clearly formed.
• The antique pothook was displayed in the museum’s colonial kitchen exhibit.