saucers

Noun

saucer (plural saucers)

1. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
2. An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
   • The saucer-shaped object could have been a UFO.
3. A circular sled without runners.
4. (obsolete) A small pan or other vessel-like food container in which sauce was set on a table.
   • Take two saucers , and strike the edge of the one against the bottom of the other , within a pail of water ; and you shall find , that as you put the saucers lower and lower , the sound groweth more flat1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William...
5. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
6. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

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