A Sucket is made in like manner of the carneous substance of stalks of Lettice. |
It took its modern form in the 17th century with the introduction of the sucket fork, designed to convey sweetmeats to the mouth. |
The sucket fork was wrought with two prongs at one end of the stem and a bowl at the other. |
Some of these sucket forks could be folded up and carried in one's pocket. |
When bits of sweetmeat lodged in the teeth, the sucket fork doubled as a nifty toothpick. |
He says that this piece is a derivative of the sucket forks of the 18th century. |