bastable

plural bastables · alternative bastible

1. IrelandA cast iron pot that is suspended over an open fire, often with hot coals placed on the lid for more even cooking.

   There was no such thing as a bastable in those days.

   1997, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, A Word in Your Ear, →ISBN, page 61

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   Erika cooked over a turf fire and roasted meat in a bastable perched over the flames.

   2001, Trevor Norton, Reflections on a Summer Sea, page 70

   We'd always have it stewed in a bastable hung over the kitchen fire way back in those days.

   2006, Carla Blake, The Irish Cookbook, →ISBN, page 12