muffineer

plural muffineers · alternative muffinier

1. A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins.First known use 18th c.

   The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.

   2009, Briann G. Greenfield, Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-century New England

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   He was sitting at his table by the light of a solitary candle, with a pen in one hand, and a muffineer in the other, with which he occasionally sprinkled salt on the wick, to make it burn blue.

   1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII

   The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the nineteenth century.

   1957, George Bernard Hughes, Small antique silverware

2. obsoleteA dish for keeping muffins hot.First known use 19th c.