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Definition of Pepper box
1. Noun. A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
Definition of Pepper box
1. n. A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepper Box
Literary usage of Pepper box
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1801)
"XLI. Your humble fervant, Orderly-room, Capt. Shandy. A Letter from the Pepper-box
to the Salt-box; from the Gentleman's Magazine. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... Pepper-box. Vide COFFEE-MILL. Peppered (turf), used in reference to a man who
has laid large stakes on a horse. He was peppered in one dangerous quarter ..."
3. The History of the Confederate War: Its Causes and Its Conduct; a Narrative by George Cary Eggleston (1910)
"... CHAPTER XIII "PEPPER Box" STRATEGY The moment Virginia adopted an ordinance
of secession the authorities on both sides recognized the fact that that ..."
4. The Mysteries of the Flowers by Herbert Waldron Faulkner (1917)
"PEPPER-BOX SEEDS In the sketch is shown the dried seed-pod of a poppy, like a
pepper-box ... We can find a great many of these "pepper-box" plants in ac- " ..."
5. Poets' Wit and Humour (1861)
"... The liquorish youth had made a halt; And lef1 the pepper-box and salt Alone,
upon the marble table : \Vho thus, like men, were heard to squabble: Pepper ..."
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