Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That one of the casters of a cruet-stand which is made to contain pepper.
- noun An early and clumsy form of modern revolver, in which the cylinder was made very long in order to fill the place of a barrel, and which was consequently very heavy. The word is sometimes used as a slang term for any revolver.
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Examples
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As Lewis has written, God does not shake miracles into nature at random as if from a pepper-caster.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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As Lewis has written, God does not shake miracles into nature at random as if from a pepper-caster.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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They were not the old-fashioned, clumsy pepper-caster which I can very well remember as having been used in actual warfare, and, indeed, esteemed as a deadly weapon, but were new from America, with all the latest patents.
In Direst Peril David Christie Murray
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He enters it as a pepper-caster, a feathered _bonbonniere_, a pickle - holder (in china), and is drawn, painted, and photographed in every style.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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The Native Daughter would have a license to complain of this if she herself didn't look as thou she'd been sprinkled with dimples from a pepper-caster.
The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921
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They couldn't get a direct with solid, but I must admit they made goodish shootin 'wi' shrapnel, an 'they've made that' ouse look like a second-'and pepper-caster.
Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910
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It has a little door at the top and another little door at the bottom, and looks like a pepper-caster.
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I take a pepper-caster, and on a sheet of white paper
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Would that I had listened to Mr. Trotter; would that I had corrected, in early life, the happy-go-lucky disposition to scatter my Greek accents, as it were, with a pepper-caster, to fish with worn tackle, and, generally, to make free with the responsibilities of life and literature.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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Higher up, amid the jagged outlines of chimney stacks, behind a slanting chess-board of smaller roofs, the pepper-caster turrets of the Palais de Justice and the garrets of the
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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