Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fork used in mixing salads. See
salad-spoon .
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Examples
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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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