What is "gravy boat"

Usage examples of "gravy boat".

The vow might have been taken more solemnly if Ser Tanton had not had one foot in a gravy boat when he made it.

The bowl of taters, although almost the size of a washbasin, needed to be refilled twice, the gravy boat three times, but to Eddie the true revelation was the rice.

Nor did she flinch when she felt the hot trickle between her toes or complain that he had transformed one of her chic new shoes into a gravy boat.

He waited until everyone was served, helped himself to the gravy boat, then passed it to Rod.

Peter thought about asking why, decided against it, and passed the gravy boat to Cathy instead.

He reached out for the dog, caught his elbow on the gravy boat, and the gravy boat slid into Matt's plate and smashed, dumping a cup and a half of semi-congealed gravy into Matt's lap.

What about the blue pitcher in the kitchen dish cabinet, the one tucked all the way in the back comer behind the gravy boat with the crack in it, the blue pitcher where you put your spare quarters, where you've been putting them ever since my father died?

Grandma helped herself to the gravy boat and poured gravy over her pot roast.

She threw food at her brother, deliberately spilled a drink and then knocked over a gravy boat.

At mealtime, when Dussel helps himself to a quarter of the half-filled gravy boat and leaves the rest of us to do without, I lose my appetite and feel like jumping to my feet, knocking him off his chair and throwing him out the door.

When he had finished, he cast it expertly over one of the stern lanterns, pulled it taut, then began to make his way up the gravy boat's curving rear end.