Crossword clues for salver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salver \Sal"ver\, n. [Sp. salva pregustation, the tasting of viands before they are served, salver, fr. salvar to save, to taste, to prove the food or drink of nobles, from L. salvare to save. See Save.] A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.
Salver \Sal"ver\, n. [Cf. Salvage.]
A salvor.
--Skeat.
Salver \Salv"er\, n. One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "tray," formed in English on the model of platter, etc., from French salve "tray used for presenting objects to the king" (17c.), from Spanish salva "a testing of food or drink" to test for poison (a procedure known as pre-gustation), hence "tray on which food was placed to show it was safe to eat," from salvar "to save, render safe," from Late Latin salvare (see save (v.)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who salves or cures. 2 One who pretends to cure; quacksalver. Etymology 2
n. One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss. Etymology 3
n. A tray used to display or serve food.
WordNet
n. a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver
Wikipedia
A salver is a flat tray of silver, other metal or glass used for carrying or serving glasses, cups, and dishes at a table, or for the presenting of a letter or card by a servant. In a royal or noble household the fear of poisoning led to the custom of tasting the food or drink before it was served to the master and his guests; this was known as the assay of meat and drink, and in Spanish was called salva. The verb salvar means to preserve from risk, from the Latin salvare, to save. The term salva was also applied to the dish or tray on which the food or drink was presented after the tasting process.There seems no doubt that this Spanish word is the source of the English salver; a parallel is found in the origin of the term credenza, which comes from Italian. Ceremonial salvers have also been used as major sporting trophies, most notably a sterling silver salver as the Ladies' Singles trophy in the Wimbledon tennis championships since 1886, and, from 1978 onwards, for the runner-up at the Masters Tournament (golf).
Usage examples of "salver".
As soon as general interest had become focussed upon Solly, Ramillies had turned in his chair like an unnoticed child with every intention of joining in the new conversation, but now a waiter appeared at his elbow with a card on a salver.
Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration.
The salver, vegetable dishes, servers and gravy boat on the sideboard were all electroplated nickel silver.
Stock Gilliflower are used by certain empiricks and quack salvers about love and lust,--matters which for modesty I omit.
All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.
Her ladyship rose to withdraw, and at that moment Leduc made his appearance with a salver, on which was a bowl of soup, a flask of Hock, and a letter.
There was also a loaf of hot bread, a platter of sausages smoking from the grill, a firkin of pickles, and a salver of sliced nutcake spread with cream cheese.
Before a curtain, over which the words Cafe Chantant were written in coloured lamps, two men were counting money on a salver.
Mario entered, bearing, one-handed and a few inches above his head, a rather splendid silver salver laden with bottles and glasses, which, in the circumstances, was no mean feat, as the San Andreas was rolling quite noticeably.
Henry Martin wouldn't have recognised a balance sheet if it had been handed to him on a silver salver.
The chests at her feet were loaded with a mass of jewelled trash--diamante anklets, gilt clasps, tiaras and chains of zircon, rhinestone necklaces and pendants, huge earrings of cultured pearl, overflowing from one chest to another and spilling onto the salvers placed on the floor like vessels to catch a quicksilver rainfall.
Hackworth, working in his study, assumed it was a mere delivery until she appeared in his doorway, harrumphing lightly, holding a salver with a single card centered on it: Lieutenant Chang.
Barry orated, "and she demanded, 'I wish for the head of John the Baptist on a silver salver!
Salvers held items of pastry, blends of creams and pastes, miniature figures of succulent crispness, oozing semi-liquid delights.
A gamey old hen, more rope than flesh, lay in a thin pepper sauce on one of the good salvers.