pepper box

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   a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper

   Synonymspepper shakerpepper pot

   Broadershaker

Questions about pepper box

What does pepper box mean?

pepper box means "a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper".

What is another word for pepper box?

Close synonyms include pepper shaker, pepper pot. 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 pepper box a common word?

pepper box 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.