Meaning of muffineer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.
2. A dish for keeping muffins hot.
   obsolete

Examples

“He was sitting at his table by the light⟳ of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make⟳ it burn blue.”

“The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name⟳ brought into use⟳ for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.”

“The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.”

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