the.com/salad spinner

means A bowl-and-basket kitchen gadget that whirls washed greens around fast enough to fling the water off them, leaving leaves dry and ready to dress.

from A transparent compound of "salad" and "spinner." "Salad" travels back through French *salade* to Vulgar Latin *salata*, short for *herba salata*, "salted greens" — from Latin *sal*, "salt," because the earliest salads were simply vegetables sprinkled with salt or dressed in salty oil. "Spinner" comes from the Old English verb *spinnan*, to twist fibers into thread, which broadened to mean any fast rotation. The device itself is a modern thing — a 20th-century invention applying centrifugal force to lettuce — so the name is young even if both its halves are ancient.