salt spoon

noun

1. a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt spoon¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

“Like oat mash and a salt spoon to feed you with when milk wasn’t enough. A little brandy when you started teething, which I made her take away right then.”

From Literature

She could hear him peeling the egg, then a faint silvery clink as he picked up the salt spoon.

From Literature

Salt′-spoon, a small spoon for serving salt at table; Salt′-spring, a brine-spring; Salt′-wa′ter, water impregnated with salt, sea-water; Salt′-works, a place where salt is made; Salt′-wort, a genus of plants of many species, mostly natives of salt-marshes and sea-shores, one only being found in Britain, the Prickly S., which was formerly burned for the soda it yielded.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

Add more or less milk as is required to make the sauce the consistency of thick cream, or of a thickness which will coat the spoon; that is, if you dip a spoon in and hold it up, the sauce will not all run off like water; when all the milk has been used, season the sauce with a level teaspoonful of salt and about a quarter of a salt spoon of white pepper.

From Project Gutenberg

About a quarter of a salt spoon; that is, a good pinch of pepper.

From Project Gutenberg