salt cellar

Meanings

1. A small open container holding salt for use in the kitchen or on a dining table.
2. Synonym of salt shaker (“a closed container with perforated lid for sprinkling salt”).

Etymology

From salt + cellar, from 15th Century Middle English saler, from Middle French salier, from Latin salārius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sāl (“salt”). Modified based on originally unrelated English cellar.