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Definition of Eating utensil
1. Noun. Tableware implements for cutting and eating food.
Specialized synonyms: Fork, Spoon, Spork, Table Knife
Terms within: Grip, Handgrip, Handle, Hold
Generic synonyms: Tableware
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eating Utensil
Literary usage of Eating utensil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplement ... to the Public Health Reports by United States Public Health Service (1921)
"... or In any railway or trolley station or ferry house, or the furnishing of any
such common drinking cup or drinking or eating utensil for common use in ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1908)
"This judgment is universal and necessary; it is his intent and meaning that
whatever eating utensil is not a fork is and must be a spoon. 33. ..."
3. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"... station or ferry house: or the furnishing of any such common drinking cup or
drinking or eating utensil for common use in any such place is prohibited. ..."
4. Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12 by Kelly Gallagher (2004)
"Driving away, Amelia misses her turnoff when she is preoccupied trying to find
a fork—an eating utensil— in the road. My students, sad to say, have a little ..."
5. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1893)
"A shallow circular vessel, like our saucer, employed for containing liquids, not
solids, that is, as a drinking, not an eating utensil (Becker, ..."
6. Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives: A Critique of the Binet-Simon by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1912)
"... a chair is a movable seat; a fork is a table or eating utensil; a horse is an
animal, or a four-footed animal that pulls; a mama is a mother, ..."
7. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"They sit down on the ground to eat, and their only eating utensil is an iron
spoon, or what is perhaps more common— a mussel shell. ..."
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