salt cellar BrE
salt shaker AmE

Only after the plate was put in front of me did I reach for the salt cellar.

That fact is meant to be the final shocker in the salt cellar.

Later, in the café, we put the flag into the salt cellar and waited.

So we set a dish of it out on our kitchen counter, next to the pepper grinder and the salt cellar.

A sign of taking too much salt is if you find it difficult to remove the salt cellar from the table.

In the moment that he blinked, however, the salt cellar had completely vanished.

What I don't understand is how the salt cellar got embedded in the pot.

They test the salt cellars and find one that contains enough to poison the men.

If all the men had used this salt cellar, this could be the cause of their poisoning.

"It seems to me that the salt cellar is missing-"