Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. [protective and life-saving equipment]

Anotations

Scope note:

Stands, supports, or flat devices, usually with long or short feet, often three, but sometimes with none and which may also have a handle, used to elevate a vessel in a hearth while cooking or to protect a surface, as of a table or counter, from being damaged by the heat of a hot object, such as a cooking vessel or flatiron.