salad basket

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of salad basket¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Fandor was listening intensely and trying to discover from the movements of the Salad Basket what street they were passing along.

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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.

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And the car which intentionally knocked my Salad Basket out of action—whose was it?

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Every one went to get some, and they took it in the salad-basket, and it was given to them with a skimmer.

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He was straightway put into one of the narrow compartments in the Salad Basket.

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