Boat-shaped pitcher in which sauce or gravy is served.
1 Boil up once and put in a sauce boat .
2 She had brought in the fish plates, a sauce boat , and two toast racks, sir.
3 If things go wrong I can always suggest that Lady Eclair sail a nate in a sauce boat .
4 Serve it up with a sauce boat of melted butter, into which a teacupful of capers or nasturtiums have been stirred.
5 You could easily slip into a hotel room with a sauce boat of that and a consenting adult and lose a whole afternoon.
6 Partridge or guinea hen must have two sauce boats - presented on one tray-brownedbread-crumbs in one, and cream sauce in the other.
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