salt spoon

noun

1. a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt spoon¹

First recorded in 1810–20

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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