Crossword clues for saltcellar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saltcellar \Salt"cel*lar\, n. [OE. saltsaler; salt + F. sali[`e]re saltcellar, from L. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Salary.] Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of salt cellar English)
WordNet
n. a small container for holding salt at the dining table
Usage examples of "saltcellar".
There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a caster of state.
Go and fetch the saltcellar and the silver platter from the chest in the loft.
With the stamp of one little foot, she could raise a storm in a saltcellar, one that could shake the keep.
From under his coat, Gaul produced a gold saltcellar, a small bowl balanced on the back of a cunningly made lion, and extended it to her.
The Aiel were no simple fools to hand over a gold saltcellar, say, for a bolt of cloth.
Then she moved the saltcellar to the precise middle of the lace cloth.
A mysterious idiosyncrasy within her demanded order and precision whether it be a folded paper, a saltcellar, books on a shelf or even a floral arrangement.
Her hand slipped and with an awkward jerk her elbow caught the saltcellar, knocking it to the grass beneath the table.
The puzzled look on his face cleared when he found the note propped against the saltcellar, and he looked pleased, then mildly irritated as he glanced at the food he had just bought, and then he began to look even happier as he realized he did not, after all, have to cook it.
Just as with the cuckoo that stops calling too soon, just as with upset saltcellars, spiders seen in the morning, black cats on the left, the oil portrait of Uncle that falls off the wall because the nail has come loose in the plaster, just as in a mirror, grownups see more in and behind a clock than any clock can justify.
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.
What are you going to do next, break out the saltcellar and rub it in?