nutmeg grater
nutmeg rasp

Came in last night from Montreal - big man with a voice like a nutmeg grater.

Your mother had a longing for nutmeg graters when she was carrying you.

He had not only a cheese grater but also a nutmeg grater.

That voice, so like a nutmeg grater, took me right back to the day I'd first arrived in Seven Islands.

Tyber yanked her out of the path of a flying nutmeg grater.

'That sounds like a nutmeg grater,' Henry said.

It had been rebuilt into something else, whose most conspicuous parts were cheese and nutmeg graters, slung over his shoulder as he marched.

Nutmeg graters are normally metal, cylindrical or half-cylindrical, the surface perforated with small rasped holes.

In the late 17th century nutmeg and nutmeg graters became associated with drinking punch, at that time a fashionable alcoholic beverage.

A nutmeg grater, or nutmeg rasp, is a device used to grate a nutmeg seed.

Nutmeg graters are a bartenders' tool, used for adding freshly grated nutmeg to hot toddies, eggnogs, and other warm drinks.

He came back laden with the cherry pitter, nutmeg grater, vegetable peeler, marble mortar and pestle, and lemon reamer.

Nutmeg is used for flavouring many dishes, usually in ground or grated form, and is best grated fresh in a nutmeg grater.

And if they fulfill these criteria, they can be just about anything, from a silver nutmeg grater to a matchbox made out of the remnants of a samurai sword.

They produced mostly fine boxes (snuff boxes, nutmeg graters and vinaigrettes) in silver and gold, but also wine labels, knife stands, apple corers and other domestic items.

He was suddenly grateful that Wanda had come and spent the evening with him, particularly since his fretting about Marmie and the children had torn away at the evening's conversation like the teeth of a nutmeg grater.

The torments induced by the rays included "Lobster-cracking", during which the circulation of the blood was prevented by a magnetic field; "Stomach-skinning"; and "Apoplexy-working with the nutmeg grater" which involved the introduction of fluids into the skull.

These things were crowded with utensils of all sorts: frying pans, sauce pans, kettles, forks, knives, basting and soup spoons, nutmeg graters, sifters, colanders, meat saws, flat irons, rolling pins and many other things of a like nature.

A nutmeg grater, or nutmeg rasp, is a device used to grate a nutmeg seed.