lemon-squeezer

A form of lemon squeezer — A device used to extract juice from lemons by crushing the lemon using the sharp middle part.

Meanings

nounlemon-squeezer (plural lemon-squeezers)

plural lemon-squeezers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of lemon squeezer.

    There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.

    2018 August 2, Parul Sehgal, “Beauty, bad temper and scandal in a riveting look at Princess Margaret”, in The Bellingham Herald, volume 130, number 214, Bellingham, Wash., page 15T, column 2
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    The last relics of the corporation of Carlisle about to be sold are—a tea-kettle, a coffee-boiler, cups and saucers, a lemon-squeezer, a punch-ladle, a gridiron, and eighteen tumblers.

    1836 April 16, “Corporation Relics”, in Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian, […], volume XIII, number 665, Southampton, Hampshire, page [4], column 6

    “I want children to learn the difference between then and now; we still have old-fashioned lemon-squeezers, but now they have juicers and blenders,” said [Debra] Payne, of Thousand Oaks.

    2015 June 14, Alicia Doyle, “Museum gives hands-on history lessons”, in Ventura County Star, Camarillo, Calif., page 3B, columns 5–6
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