"muffineer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section VIII:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The handled spice dredger was superseded during the 1760s by the handleless caster used for cinnamon and known to collectors as the muffineer, a name brought into use for such a caster early in the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.",
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          "text": "The piece was an eighteenth-century silver muffineer, or sugar shaker.",
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        "A small jar or caster with a perforated top for sprinkling salt or sugar on muffins."
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        "A dish for keeping muffins hot."
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        "(obsolete) A dish for keeping muffins hot."
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