A receptacle for spit (usually in a public place)

Usage examples of spittoon.

The bar top, the tables and the floor were exceptionally clean, and brass footrails and spittoons gleamed with a high polish.

The largest man hoisted the spittoon to his shoulder, delivered it to the office and sat it near the wardrobe.

In many cases, too, the wealthy and the cultured rose to spittoons and other evidences of a sumptuous and luxurious taste.

Harz into another room, decorated with pipe-racks, prints of dancinggirls, spittoons, easy-chairs well-seasoned by cigar smoke, French novels, and newspapers.

There were buckets, spittoons, pictures, lamps, and rush-bottom chairs.

I have been a buddha, and a basketed ghost, and a would‑be‑saviour of the nation… Saieem has been rushing down blind alleys, has had considerable problems with reality, ever since a spittoon fell like a piece‑of‑the‑… pity me: I've even lost my spittoon.

The big black-haired plainclothes man bonged his private spittoon again and said: "I hear the mayor changed his underpants, but it's just a rumor.

A plainclothesman with his coat off and his hog's leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper, bonged a spittoon ten feet away from him, yawned, and said the Chief's office was upstairs at the back.

I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug‑that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams.

As Blaise thought, wildly, of spittoons, Sanford and Houghteling were covering the table with sheets of paper, and Caroline and Trimble were talking to each other in low collusive voices.

Or those red-curtained panes, Whence a tame cornet tenored it throatily Of beer-pots and spittoons and new long pipes, Might turn a caravansery's, wherein You found Noureddin Ali, loftily drunk, And that fair Persian, bathed in tears, You'd not have given away For all the diamonds in the Vale Perilous You had that dark and disleaved afternoon Escaped on a roc's claw, Disguised like Sindbad--but in Christmas beef!

An ink-stained table, littered with pens, papers, and almanacs, an American cloth sofa, three chairs of varying patterns, and a much-worn carpet, constituted all the furniture, save only a very large and obtrusive porcelain spittoon, and a gaudily framed and very somber picture which hung above the fireplace.

The buddha, protecting his halved companion from the disillusioning sight of this mechanized muezzin, whose call to prayer would always be scratched in the same places, extracted from the folds of his shapeless robe a glinting object: and turned his milky gaze upon the silver spittoon.

A red stream of expectorated paan‑fluid leaves his lips, to hit, with commendable accuracy, a beautifully‑wrought silver spittoon, which sits before him on the ground.

A plainclothesman with his coat off and his hogs leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper, bonged a spittoon ten feet away from him, yawned, and said the Chiefs office was upstairs at the back.