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A shaker being used to cast salt by the Fourteenth Doctor (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
A shaker was a type of container that often held condiments like salt and pepper.
Attempting to stall the Not-things while stuck onboard a spaceship at the edge of the Flux-damaged universe, the Fourteenth Doctor used a shaker to pour out salt, invoking a superstition in the process. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder) Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, this simple act where "the walls [were] thin" allowed the Toymaker and his legions to enter the universe (TV: The Giggle, The Devil's Chord).
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