spittoon

Definitions

Examples

• The floors were sticky with the tar from overflowing spittoons.

• Often placed in the middle of the floor, the spittoon was used mainly by tobacco-chewers.

• I felt stupid and alone, and compensated by trying desperately to keep a fingerhold on my identity by hiding a spittoon in the inside of my jacket pocket so I could chew tobacco during class.

• The host, not to be outdone, was sitting with his feet on the railing of the stove, but as far from the spittoon as possible.

• The ladies are not compelled to sit in isolation, by the side of passengers who use the car-floor as a spittoon.

• An attendant holding a spittoon immediately took up his position beside him.

• The spittoon was emptied into the sea at a distance from land secretly and in the middle of the night.

• The spittoon was solid silver, and had never been used but once, when a child threw into it an orange peeling.