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salt-cellar

salt-cellar is the alternative form of salt cellar.

Meaning of salt cellar

Noun

salt cellar (plural salt cellars)

  1. A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.
    • Soon afterwards, Biddy, Joe, and I, had a cold dinner together; but we dined in the best parlour, not in the old kitchen, and Joe was so exceedingly particular what he did with his knife and fork and the saltcellar and what not, that there was great restraint upon us.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVI, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 259–260
  2. (UK) Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”).
    Synonyms:
    salt shaker, cellar, salt

Forms of salt-cellar

pluralsalt-cellars

Questions about salt-cellar

What is salt-cellar the alternative form of?
Salt-cellar is the alternative form of salt cellar.

Words near salt-cellar in the dictionary

  1. salt-and-pepper doris
  2. salt-and-pepper noise
  3. salt-box
  4. salt-boxes
  5. salt-cat
  6. salt-cellar
  7. salt-effect distillation
  8. salt-free
  9. salt-green
  10. salt-marsh caterpillar
  11. salt-marsh caterpillars

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