| 单词 | drum salt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrum salt drum salt n. now chiefly historical a salt cellar in the form of an open-topped cylinder with a lid, both of which are typically heavily ornamented. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > salt-cellar saltfatc1000 salera1400 salt cellar1434 salt1493 drum salt1537 trencher salt1615 scroll salt1630 trencher salt cellar1681 standing salt1826 salt-sprinkler1864 salt-stand1869 salt-shaker1895 1537 Sir J. Dudley Let. 15 Mar. in Lett. & Papers Foreign & Domest. Henry VIII (1890) XII. i. 290 (modernized text) What a great brag they set upon it, for they made their drumsalt to strike a larum. 1891 All Year Round 21 Mar. 278/1 Thomas Waldo..also presented the Clothworkers' Company with a drum-salt. 2004 H. M. Clifford Treasured Inheritance iv. 74/2 In the mid-sixteenth century the standing salt..became smaller, a good example being the drum salt of 1554–5 at Corpus. < as lemmas |
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