Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
saucer .
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Examples
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Iff u gibz Cookie a double cheezburgr, den shee will want da sawcer uff mylk….
Stack Cats - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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[Headnote: HOW TO CARVE DOWCETES AND PAYNE PUFF.] [Sidenote: Dowcets: pare away the sides; serve in a sawcer.]
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Wen I got home I drest up in my Sunday-skule cloes, and went round and wated wile my gal was puttin on her bandyline and rubbin her face with a red sawcer wot she sez she uses for newralgy.
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858
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(M483) They further also aduertised me, that the women going to dance, did weare about their girdles plates of golde as broad as a sawcer, and in such number that the weight did hinder them to dance at their ease; and that the men ware the like also.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Round abowt a sawcer/ley ye þem in hast; þe vinegr {e} in þe same sawcer, þ {a} t your {e} lord may attast, 648 þañ w {i} t {h} þe said fisch {e}/he may fede hym̅/
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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In a sawcer {e} afor {e} your {e} sou {er} ayne semely ye hit sett whañ hym̅ liketh {e} to atast: looke ye not forgete.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Shrimps picked, lay them round a sawcer, and serve with vinegar.”
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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[Sidenote: Shrimps picked, lay them round a sawcer, and serve with vinegar.”]
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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