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salt spoon

salt spoon is the alternative form of saltspoon.

Meaning of saltspoon

Noun

saltspoon (plural saltspoons)

  1. (historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.
    • Her reasons […] for disliking paupers of every description were entirely on the surface; “she hated them,” she said, “for they were nasty dirty creatures; the fellows and wenches were all thieves; she once lost a salt spoon by one of them whom Master George thought proper to bring to her door for...1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 55-56

Forms of salt spoon

pluralsalt spoons

Questions about salt spoon

What is salt spoon the alternative form of?
Salt spoon is the alternative form of saltspoon.

Words near salt spoon in the dictionary

  1. Salt River Valley
  2. Salt Sea
  3. salt sedative
  4. salt shaker
  5. salt shakers
  6. salt spoon
  7. salt spoons
  8. salt spray
  9. salt spray test
  10. salt spray tests
  11. salt sprays

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