potatoes

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The same old Teapot Dome hung upon legal pothooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is barely two years ago—and now here stands Territorial Kantorek, the spell quite broken, with bent knees, arms like pothooks, unpolished buttons and that ludicrous rig-out—an impossible soldier.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

An old iron crane, with various sized pothooks and links of chain, swung from the jambs at the will of the housewife.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

Its picture plainly shows the stone ledges within the fireplace, the curved iron lug-pole, and hanging pothooks and trammels.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Here's a business," said Skeffy; "as well as I can make out her old pothooks, it is that she can't receive me.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James