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noun

Saucer n.

A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. (Obs.)

A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.

Something resembling a saucer in shape. Specifically:

(a)

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

(b)

A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.

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Etymology of 'Saucer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Saucer" Quotes from Famous Books

... with moonlight. The facades of the houses, with their blank windows, might be carved out of ice. In the dark of a doorway a woman sits hunched under a brown shawl. Her head nods, but still she jerks a tune that sways and dances through the silent street out of the accordion on her lap. A little saucer for pennies is on the step beside her. In the next doorway two guttersnipes are huddled together asleep. The moonlight points out with mocking interest their skinny dirt-crusted feet and legs stretched ...

— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

... in a hearty laugh and, stripping off their upper garments, to the immense admiration of the natives. They themselves applied paint in rings, zigzags, and other forms to their white shirts; painted a large saucer-like circle round the eyes with vermilion, so as to give themselves something the appearance of the great idols; and having thus transmogrified themselves, each gravely took his place upon his perch; where, leaning back against the ...

— Under Drake's Flag - A Tale of the Spanish Main • G. A. Henty

... beneficial and essential to happiness by British workers that Charles Dickens, in reviewing the situation, presents it as follows:—"And yet the washerwomen looked to her afternoon 'dish of tea' as something that might make her comfortable after her twelve hours of labor, and balancing her saucer on a tripod of three fingers, breathed a joy beyond utterance as she cooled the draught. The factory workman then looked forward to the singing of the kettle, as some compensation for the din of ...

— Tea Leaves • Francis Leggett & Co.

... They crawled under low bushes and stumbled out, in what seemed at first a dazzle of light; into a small saucer-shaped plat of earth a few feet across, enclosed by an irregular oval made by great blocks of stone, man-high. Below, a succession of little cliffs fell away, stair fashion, to an exceeding high and narrow gap which separated Little Thumb Butte from its greater ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... cup and saucer from the dresser, and drawing a little stand near the bed, she placed them on it, then measured out her tea into an earthern tea pot, as she had often seen her grandmother do; and the water boiled, Frank poured it on for her, and they put it down to draw, ...

— Frank and Fanny • Mrs. Clara Moreton

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