bread-tray

The canoe itself is merely a large shallow box, made of rough planks, with sloping prow and stern, more like a bread-tray in shape than anything else I can think of.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Thenceforth at all our dinners a skeleton entered our closet — if an empty bread-tray might be dignified into a skeleton.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

As Sister Glory White had predicted, I "came down to it" at once and soon learned to perform the usual feminine miracles in the bread-tray and skillets.

A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902

Sophie was in place in this old farmhouse, with its dormer windows, with the weaver's loom in the large kitchen, the meat-block by the fireplace, and the big bread-tray by the stove, where the yeast was as industrious as the reapers beyond in the fields.

The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

Sophie was in place in this old farmhouse, with its dormer windows, with the weaver's loom in the large kitchen, the meat-block by the fireplace, and the big bread-tray by the stove, where the yeast was as industrious as the reapers beyond in the fields.

The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Sophie was in place in this old farmhouse, with its dormer windows, with the weaver's loom in the large kitchen, the meat-block by the fireplace, and the big bread-tray by the stove, where the yeast was as industrious as the reapers beyond in the fields.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

He had lived on odds and ends for several days, eatin 'crackers that had bin turned over by revelers in the bread-tray at the bar.

Artemus Ward 1865

The steward saved himself by dropping the bread-tray and grasping the handle of the cabin door.

Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions 1859

Aunt Miriam was in high tide of business over a pot of boiling lard, and the enormous bread-tray by the side of the fire was half full of very tempting light-brown cruller, which, however, were little more than a kind of sweet bread for the workmen.

Queechy 1854

She laid the cloth, brought in the bread-tray, and cut a slice from the loaf for her husband, then returned to the kitchen.

The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins 1856