"Cullender" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dishes of nine sizes (from Newcastle). Long dishes for rabbits. } Saucers. } Chargers. } Silver fashioned. Pie plates. } Voider. } A beef-prick. Fire shoves and tongs. A brig (a sort of brandreth). A cullender. A pewter baking-pan. Kettles of brass. A skillet. A brandeth. A shredding knife. A chopping knife. An apple cradle. A pair of irons to make wafers with. A brass pot-lid. Beef-axes and knives. } Slaughter ropes. } ...
— Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine • William Carew Hazlitt
... the parrot's cage, which happened to be balanced upon an unstable pile of cooking utensils at the end of Nicky Vro's thwart. Cat, cage and parrot, a gridiron, two cake tins, a bundle of skewers, and a cullender, went overboard in one rattling avalanche, and Master Calvin ...
— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... beauty being on the surface. This is a popular error, and no one but a superficial fellow would defend it Among ten thousand you could not get a more unfavorable surface than Phelim's. His face resembled the rough side of a cullender, or, as he was often told in raillery, "you might grate potatoes on it." The lid of his left eye, as the reader knows, was like the lid of a salt-box, always closed; and when he risked a wink with the right, it certainly gave him the look of a man shutting out the world, and retiring into himself ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton
... saw the machinery. A steam-engine works an endless chain of buckets round and round upon a platform with rollers. The buckets have steel mouthpieces, some with quite sharp projecting lips, which cut into the sand and gravelly bottom, and scoop up what fills each bucket. At the bottom of each are cullender holes, through which the water drains off as the buckets go on and pass over the platform and empty themselves on an inclined plane, down which the contents fall into a boat, which rows away when full, and deposits the contents wherever wanted. If you ever looked at a book at Edgeworthstown ...
— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth |
