spoon-bowl

To his surprise the gruel mounded up over the wire loop as if it had had a solid spoon-bowl under it.

Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

But this must be first softened by pouring some warm oil, pure olive oil, or good pure sperm oil, into the ear, and repeat it two or three times a day for several days, until it is so far softened as to be easily removed with the probe end of common small tweezers, having a spoon-bowl point.

An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time

With a file, and his usual ingenuity, he constructed, out of the spoon-bowl of a pipe cleaner the writer had in his pocket, the special tool necessary to grip that little burner, and soon the burner was unscrewed and the broken wire taken out and the primus was purring away merrily again, melting the water for supper.

The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891

As we neared the loop, I saw that Whitmore was laying his course to port, (I was sitting on the starboard side -- the side the house was on), and was going to start around that spoon-bowl on that left-hand side.

Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

Miss Kimble and her pupils stared at the distorted reflexion of him in the spoon-bowl of their own elongated narrowness; Mr.. Sclater saw the possible gentleman through the loop-hole of a compliment he had paid her; and Mr. Sclater beheld only the minimum which the reversed telescope of his own enlarged importance, he having himself come of sufficiently humble origin, made of him; while Ginevra looked up to him more as one who marvelled at the grandly unintelligible, than one who understood the relations and proportions of what she beheld.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864