Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fork used in mixing salads. See salad-spoon.

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Examples

  • "Professor Niklas Mörner, one of the liveliest lecturers on the circuit despite his great age, briskly wielded a wooden salad-fork as a pointer"

    Shooting blanks EliRabett 2009

  • Then carefully examining each leaf separately, she tied them in a wet cloth and laid them "spang on the ice," which course of treatment rendered them so crisp that to cut them with a sharp salad-fork was always to get a little dressing splashed in one's eye.

    At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

  • "Will," she said earnestly, laying down her salad-fork and spoon, "I think it is wrong for us to live as we do."

    The Pagans Arlo Bates 1884

  • "This is all very amusing," he remarked with decision as he put down his salad-fork, "but will you pardon me for asking just why you came here?

    The Madness of May Meredith Nicholson 1906

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