Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A frame, often of silver, for holding cruets and casters. The frame, cruets, and casters together are commonly called casters, the casters, or a caster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a frame for holding cruets; a caster; a stand for cruets together with the cruets containing various condiments.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stand for cruets containing various condiments
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Examples
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There was no one in the eating-room, which had a separate entrance, and they sat down at a small table with a cruet-stand, a handbell, a bottle of Worcester sauce, and in a vase some failing pyrethrums which had never been fresh.
Flowering Wilderness 2004
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“Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too,” said
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“And remembered that there were emetics in the cruet-stand,” said Father Brown.
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The table with all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt, and cruet-stand were strewn over the room;
Madame Bovary 2003
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“Oh, there are sermons in a cruet-stand, too,” said
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“It serves you right,” she was saying: “I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.”
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“It serves you right,” she was saying: “I always told you not to have that old-fashioned cruet-stand.”
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“And remembered that there were emetics in the cruet-stand,” said Father Brown.
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Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate.
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It touched up the cruet-stand and the britannia metal in the little dining-room at the Green Man and an emaciated ray even found its way to the rows of bottles in the bar and to the anvil at Copse Forge.
Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956
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