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salt cellars

salt cellars is the plural 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

Questions about salt cellars

What is salt cellars the plural of?
Salt cellars is the plural of salt cellar.

Words near salt cellars in the dictionary

  1. salt caves
  2. Salt Cay
  3. salt cedar
  4. salt cedars
  5. salt cellar
  6. salt cellars
  7. salt chuck
  8. salt chucks
  9. salt clay
  10. Salt Coates
  11. salt cod

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