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Salter   /sˈɔltər/   Listen
noun
Salter  n.  One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.



adjective
Salt  adj.  (compar. salter; superl. saltest)  
1.
Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears."
2.
Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
3.
Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. "I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me."
4.
Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory.
Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. (Western U.S.)
Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.
Salt fish.
(a)
Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
(b)
A marine fish.
Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter.
Salt horse, salted beef. (Slang)
Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. (Slang)
Salt lick. See Lick, n.
Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water.
Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zool.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acraea which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear.
Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes.
Salt-marsh hen (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.
Salt-marsh terrapin (Zool.), the diamond-back.
Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
Salt pan.
(a)
A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun.
(b)
pl. Salt works.
Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or made.
Salt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. (U.S.)
Salt raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.
Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. (Obs.)
Salt spring, a spring of salt water.
Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia.
Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears. "Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here."
Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.
Salt-water tailor. (Zool.) See Bluefish.






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"Salter" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lease of a house or houses which would qualify him to act for Middlesex, it would seem that the county was afterwards added to his commission. He must have entered upon his office in the first weeks of December, as upon the ninth of that month one John Salter was committed to the Gatehouse by Henry Fielding, Esq., "of Bow Street, Covent Garden, formerly Sir Thomas de Veil's." Sir Thomas de Veil, who died in 1746, and whose Memoirs had just been published, could not, however, have been ...
— Fielding - (English Men of Letters Series) • Austin Dobson

... is very incommodious, which hurts their nerves exceedingly. Salts, as the Lord Chancellor Bacon sayes, doe exert (irradiate) raies of cold. Elias Ashmole, Esq. got a dangerous cold by sitting by the salt sacks in a salter's shop, which was like to have cost him his life. And some salts will corrode papers, that were three or four inches from it. The same may be sayd of marble pavements, which have cost some ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... if Bathurst, 'his beloved friend,' belonged to the club, Johnson should have forgotten it. Bathurst died in the expedition to the Havannah about 1762. Two others of those given in Hawkins's list were certainly dead by 1783. M'Ghie, who died while the club existed (Ib. p. 361), and Dr. Salter. A writer in the Builder (Dec. 1884) says, 'The King's Head was burnt down twenty-five years ago, but the cellarage remains beneath No. 4, Alldis's dining-rooms, on ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell

... since. He served eight years as a pastor, holding three appointments, and ten years as a presiding elder. He was appointed to the Manning District in 1889, and after serving there four years he was appointed, by Bishop Salter, to the Orangeburg District, the largest district in the State, and served there five years. Bishop A. Grant appointed him to the Sumter District in 1898, which district he served until the General Conference met in Columbus, Ohio, 1900, where he was elected Corresponding Secretary ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... Peter Peebles, doggedly; 'what for no, I would be glad to ken? If a day's labourer refuse to work, ye'll grant a warrant to gar him do out his daurg—if a wench quean rin away from her hairst, ye'll send her back to her heuck again—if sae mickle as a collier or a salter make a moonlight flitting, ye will cleek him by the back-spaul in a minute of time—and yet the damage canna amount to mair than a creelfu' of coals, and a forpit or twa of saut; and here is a chield taks leg from his engagement, and damages me to the ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott


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