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Answer for the clue "Salt ___ (item next to a dinner plate) ", 6 letters:
shaker

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shaker may refer to: Cocktail shaker , a container used to mix alcoholic drinks Salt shaker , used to dispense salt Shaker (codename) , long-burning illuminating flares dropped from Bomber Command aircraft during World War II Shaker (laboratory) , a device ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2 A variety of pigeon. 3 One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered. 4 A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "one who or which shakes," agent noun from shake (v.). Applied from 1640s (with capital initial) to various Christian sects whose devotional exercises often involved convulsions. The best-known, the American-based "Society of Believers in Christ's ...

Usage examples of shaker.

Shakers axed me to go to their meetin, as they was to hav sarvices that mornin, so I put on a clean biled rag and went.

Though she had already been well briefed on who would and would not be present, the seating arrangements, and which of the delegation were figureheads, and which were the real movers and shakers in Congress, her staff could not tell her what the attitude of the senators and congressmen would be at the time of the meeting.

Shaker pegs upon which to hang coats, a heavy wrought iron boot scraper, and big standing bootjack and a long, massive oak table.

Everybody knows all about the Pythagorean craze, its rise in Boston, its rapid spread, and its subsequent consolidation with mental and Christian science, theosophy, hypnotism, the Salvation Army, the Shakers, the Dunkards, and the mind-cure cult, upon a business basis.

American, from Bohemia Manor, Woman in the Wilderness and Ephrata, through the Shakers, Owenites and Fourierists, to Brook Farm and Oneida.

At the same time he signaled to the waiter, who brought him another glass of maha, setting a plastic shaker of cinnamon next to it.

Captain of all the Mongs and high servant to Khad Tambur, Scourge of the World and Shaker of the Universe.

If the Data Bank has obliterated all record of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, the Rappites, New Harmony, and many more, the fact should have been played up.

Alice pointed her forkful of fried egg at the wall next to the kitchen window, where painted shelves held the things Helen had started and stopped collecting over the years saltcellars, vintage salt and pepper shakers, cobalt blue glassware.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.

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Wu and Liu Dahong had studied with the same kungfu Master, and Shaker had quite a reputation on River and Lake.

I ordered two vodka martinis and we exchanged inane remarks while I watched him pour a stream of vodka into a silver shaker and add a stingy dash of vermouth.

She pushed salt and pepper shakers into a circle and mimed squinting through them.

With all the new movers and shakers pushing their way into her circle of influence, Star Catcher had to be out there as much as possible.