salad basket

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of salad basket

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside Ren�'s cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off to the hospital prison at Fres-nes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Project Gutenberg

This same policeman would have been surprised, could he have seen the bibulous one's face when the Salad Basket cast loose from her moorings and started off in the direction of the Point-du-Jour police station, the last on the round to be visited!

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg