saltspoon
saltspoon noun: a small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.
Noun
saltspoon (plural saltspoons)
- 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
- His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself […]1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, chapter 22, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC
saltspoon meaning in Tamil
saltspoon in Tamil
- உப்புக் கரண்டி
Forms of saltspoon
| plural | saltspoons |
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Origin of saltspoon
From salt + spoon.
Words formed from saltspoon
Questions about saltspoon
- What does saltspoon mean?
- Saltspoon means a small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.
- What is saltspoon in Tamil?
- Saltspoon in Tamil is உப்புக் கரண்டி. See Saltspoon meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is saltspoon?
- Saltspoon is a noun.
- What is the plural of saltspoon?
- The plural of saltspoon is saltspoons.
Words near saltspoon in the dictionary
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