salad basket


noun
  1. a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.

Origin of salad basket

1
First recorded in 1905–10

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How to use salad basket in a sentence

  • Fandor was listening intensely and trying to discover from the movements of the salad basket what street they were passing along.

    Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre
  • Fandor's cell was now at such an angle that he could only suppose that the salad basket had had one of its wheels broken.

    Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre
  • And the car which intentionally knocked my salad basket out of action—whose was it?

    Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre
  • Every one went to get some, and they took it in the salad-basket, and it was given to them with a skimmer.

    Italian Popular Tales | Thomas Frederick Crane
  • He was straightway put into one of the narrow compartments in the salad basket.

    Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre