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(historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon..
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 […] ”
His gleaming little service of plate was so arranged upon his sideboard as that a slack salt-spoon would have instantly betrayed itself […]
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.
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Saltspoon means (historical) A small spoon used for serving or measuring salt, equivalent to ⅛ teaspoon..
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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 […] ”
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