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muffineer
noun 2
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4ADJ.
other, silver
VERB + MUFFINEER
hand
MUFFINEER + NOUN
shaker, sugar
PREP.
in
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noun
1
A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.
2
A dish for keeping muffins hot.
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He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.
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The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the ni
Wiktionary03
The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.
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