salad basket
noun
a basket in which washed salad greens are swung or spun to remove excess water.
Origin of salad basket
1First recorded in 1905–10
Words Nearby salad basket
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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 SouvestreFandor'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 SouvestreAnd the car which intentionally knocked my salad basket out of action—whose was it?
Messengers of Evil | Pierre SouvestreEvery 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 CraneHe was straightway put into one of the narrow compartments in the salad basket.
Messengers of Evil | Pierre Souvestre
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