Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low, boat-shaped pitcher typically having a wide lip at one end and a handle at the other and used for serving sauces and gravies.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
Etymologies
- sauce + boat. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Who would remember the exact position of a half-finished sauceboat or the angle of a spanner?”
The Guardian: Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver
“Put this sauce through a fine strainer and serve it on top of the carved turkey or on the side in a sauceboat.”
“Serve the cream sauce from a sauceboat on the side, to be poured over to one's taste.”
“Spoon some of the sauce over each piece of chicken and serve the remaining sauce separately in a warmed sauceboat.”
“Transfer each package to a warmed dinner plate, decorate each plate with a sprig of parsley and a lemon wedge, and serve with beurre blanc in a warmed sauceboat on the side.”
“Serve on individual dinner plates with sorrel sauce in a sauceboat on the side.”
“Serve the remaining sauce separately in a warm sauceboat.”
“When the liquid boils and reduces a bit, pour it into a sauceboat and serve with the chicken and vegetables.”
“Carve the turkey and serve with the gravy on top, passing extra gravy in a sauceboat.”
“As Ty started to reach for the silver sauceboat, Chase stated, I prefer my meat well done.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sauceboat’.
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boat phrases/words
how boat is used
boat basin, boat bed, boat bedding, boat-bone, boat bridge, boat chain, boat chock, boat cloak, boat club, boat cover, boat cradle, boat crew and 140 more...
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joyce: compounds
a list of joyce's neologistic compounds from portrait of an artist as a young man, dubliners, and ulysses
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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