biscuit barrel BrE , also: biscuit tin

How can someone look elegant with a biscuit barrel on their head?

Then Auntie Lou made tea and put the biscuit barrel on the table.

Lewis stirred an extra sugar lump into his tea, and rooted through the biscuit barrel.

She cried out hoarsely, one flailing arm batting the biscuit barrel away.

Lewis abandoned the biscuit barrel, and looked meaningfully at a blank monitor screen beside them.

Emma took the lid off the biscuit barrel, and rooted inside for something with a really thick chocolate coating.

Timothy, that is not a drum, that is a biscuit barrel.

And yet she feared scrutiny, like a wean following an unauthorised withdrawal from the biscuit barrel.

Alf Hicks' biscuit barrel award is awarded each year for outstanding service to the village.

In the United Kingdom, they are known as biscuit barrels or biscuit jars.

Oh I'm gonna get you a biscuit barrel.

Cookie jars, also known as biscuit barrels or jars, have been used in England since the latter part of the 18th century.

The range included vases, bowls, jugs, a biscuit barrel, and proved very popular as gift ware.

The bread-bin, when she found it, held half a loaf of dry, unappetising white bread, although the biscuit barrel was well stocked.

He was a small rosy-cheeked boy with wiry blond hair, a round little biscuit barrel of a body and a doleful expression.

Come on, biscuit barrel.

Here's the biscuit barrel.

Where is the Wedgwood biscuit barrel, Serena?

Brenda a biscuit barrel.

The sky was bluer than a biscuit barrel, fitting neatly over a broad valley through which the river ran as sluggishly as a planning inquiry.

In the 1980's, such collectors as Anna Wintour and the Missonis started scooping up hand-painted biscuit barrels, chargers and teapots with the uninhibited designs.

Bacardi and coke is my only tipple and I do sometimes get through a couple on nights when I'm in myself, well it's better than turning to the biscuit barrel isn't it?

New Percy-themed lines have included Percy Pig socks, ties, toy cars, biscuit barrels, Advent calendars, bed linen, cushions, pencil cases, birthday cake candles and children's books.

In each of these there were tea and coffee ware shapes, but the first two were so popular that biscuit barrels, sugar sifters, bowls and vases were issued to enlarge the range.

She joined the Conservatives in 2006, and later said of her membership of Labour, "It was almost looking in the biscuit barrel, not liking the look of the biscuits, and slamming the lid shut."