gravy boat

1. 1.

   a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce

   Synonymsgravy holdersauceboatboat

   Broaderdish

   Narrowerargyll

Questions about gravy boat

What does gravy boat mean?

gravy boat means "a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce".

What is another word for gravy boat?

Close synonyms include gravy holder, sauceboat, boat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gravy boat a common word?

gravy boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.