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Slop basin   /slɑp bˈeɪsən/   Listen
Slop basin

noun
1.
A bowl into which the dregs of teacups and coffee cups are emptied at the table.  Synonym: slop bowl.






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"Slop basin" Quotes from Famous Books



... purification. Not at all; the chancellor viewed this outlandish novelty with the same jealousy as others. However, on the earnest petition of Scaliger, he made an order that a basin or other vessel of cold water should be produced. His household bowed to this judgment, and a slop basin was cautiously introduced. "What!" said Scaliger, "only one, and we so many?" Even that one contained but a teacup full of water: but the great scholar soon found that he must be thankful for what he had got. It had cost the whole strength of the English chancery to produce that single cup of water; ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

... had been some sharp rumours of great things before; but the best people, having been misled so often, shook their heads without produce of their contents; until Captain Stubbard came out in his shirt sleeves one bright summer morning at half past nine, with a large printed paper in one hand and a slop basin full of hot paste in the other. His second boy, George, in the absence of Bob (who was now drawing rations at Woolwich), followed, with a green baize apron on, and carrying a hearth-brush tied round with a string to keep ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore



Words linked to "Slop basin" :   United Kingdom, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, bowl, slop bowl, Great Britain, Britain, UK



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