saltcellar

Without uttering a word, I pick up the heavy saltcellar, and fling it violently against the French mirror.

Saltcellar, sawlt′sel-ar, n. a small table vessel for holding salt.

Set the saltcellar on your lords right, and trenchers on the left of it.

There is a saltcellar of state, so called, and there may be a castor of state.

The user was expected to sprinkle the liquid over the fire just as salt is sprinkled from a saltcellar over meat.