cotterall n also cottle*, crottle EDD cotterel sb 2 s w cties. A metal bar with notches on which pot is hung in fire-place; one of the notches on a pot-hook; POT BAR.
   1866 WILSON 353 On this pot-bar was hung the cotterail and pot-hooks, which sustained the vessels. 1883 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 6 [Crémaillère] referred to a toothed or notched piece of iron to be seen suspended from a beam in the old fashioned chimneys of country houses. I believe the English term for this article is coterel. 1903 Nfld Qtly Dec, p. 5 Hanging over the fire, on the cottrel and hangers, were a large three-legged pot ... a flat bake-pot ... and finally a large 'piper.' T 156-65 They bake un, see. But you can't bake in they ovens like you'd bake on cottles. You've seen the cottles. There's notches for risin' up the pot if 'tis too hot, put un up on t'other notch. 1972 MURRAY 183-4 'I remember the open fireplace,' he said, 'the flue with the crooks and crottles for hanging pots on.' The 'crook and crottles' was shaped not unlike a walking stick with a hook which went over the iron bar that stretched across the open fireplace. It had one straight side and the other side was notched. The whole hung down from the horizontal iron bar and could be slid along it. Pots could be raised or lowered on the crottles according to the housewife's desires.

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