salt shaker

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   a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt

   Synonymssaltshaker

   Broadershaker

Questions about salt shaker

What does salt shaker mean?

salt shaker means "a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt".

What is another word for salt shaker?

Close synonyms include saltshaker. 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 salt shaker a common word?

salt shaker 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.