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salt spoon
noun
- a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of salt spoon1
First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences
Use the butter-knife, salt-spoon, and sugar-tongs as scrupulously when alone, as if a room full of people were watching you.
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If your friend of the Universo has a salt spoon of his own this time to-morrow, he 'll be a lucky dog.
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It was repeated in a more peremptory manner, "Thomas, Mrs. Murray has not a salt-spoon!"
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To them we might impart the uses of the salt-spoon, and ask in return the secret of punctuality on the railways.
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"Good, good," said the Baron de B——, and tapped his wine glass with a small salt spoon.
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