Definition of "spittoon" []

• A bowl-shaped, usually metal vessel, often with a funnel-shaped cover, into which tobacco chewers periodically spit. (noun)

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• "Oh -- the way you get your foot out of a spittoon is just to unlace your shoe and take your foot out of it."
• "From its sloping internal form it might have been called the spittoon of the Jotuns."
• "On the table was placed all his text books and such other teacher's implements, or fixings, and then to descend as it were from the "sublime to the ridiculous," he installed, within easy reach, a large earthen "spittoon," or more modernly speaking, "cuspidor.""