Dear Rhuby: And now that you know what a skillet is, see if you can guess what a "spider" is. It is closely related.
Aw, shucks. My dictionary has it, but maybe yours doesn't. It was originally a frying pan with three legs about three inches long, which could be used over coals of fire in hearth.

And I'll bet you never saw a pimento paddle. Fred Allen told about getting a solid gold one for Christmas. Just what the well bred tidy type gourmet needs to tuck any pimento herniating of of his olive back where it belongs.