Cruet [noun]
Definition of Cruet:
container
Synonyms of Cruet:
● Jug
● Flask
● Urn
● Vase
● Can
● Bottle
● Vessel
● Basin
● Pot
● Beaker
● Crock
● Decanter
● Pitcher
● Flagon
● Chalice
● Ewer
● Vat
● Burette
● Tun
Opposite/Antonyms of Cruet:
-
Sentence/Example of Cruet:
He was shedding tears copiously, and wiping them on a cruet-stand he carried in one hand.
There were little domesticities of intimate life about him, an empty soup-dish, a cruet-stand, a plate and a spoon.
Hang the pepper-box to his nose, nurse, then he will be a cruet.
This simple yet ingenious contrivance is far prettier than our somewhat vulgar cruet-stand.
A short time before he had calmly looked me in the face across the table, and pledged me in the vinegar-cruet, which he emptied.
Each had in the center a vinegar cruet, a sugar bowl, salt and pepper shakers.
He threw the cruet in the dustbin—where I found it, along with other silver—for the sake of a burglary blind.
To the tablecloth an overturned cruet-stand mingled with egg gave colour.
He went straight through to the old table, propped his book against the cruet and began to read.
The fact is, it is vinegar-cruet against sugar-bowl in perpetual controversy.