Saltspoon

Quick meaning: Saltspoon is a noun meaning (historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.

Meaning

(historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon.

Example Sentences

Dashed the bold fork through pies of pork; O’er hard-boiled eggs the saltspoon shook;

There is no such thing as a saltspoon in Yucatan. You are expected to shake the salt out or take it out with your fingers.

His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself […]

1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 55-56, 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 cold victuals […] ”

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include saltspoonful, tablespoon, teaspoon, soupspoon, spoon, coffeespoon.

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