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salter 音标拼音: [s'ɔltɚ] n. 制盐业者;盐商;盐厂职工 制盐业者;盐商;盐厂职工 salter n 1: someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods 2: someone who makes or deals in salt [ synonym: { salter}, { salt merchant}] Salt \ Salt\, a. [ Compar. { Salter}; superl. { Saltest}.] [ AS. sealt, salt. See { Salt}, n.] 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." -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. [ 1913 Webster] I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] { Salt acid} ( Chem.), hydrochloric acid. { Salt block}, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. -- Knight. { Salt bottom}, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [ Western U. S.] -- Bartlett. { 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}. See Illust. under { Moth}, { Pupa}, and { Woolly bear}, under { Woolly}. { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { Salt- water sailor}, an ocean mariner. { Salt- water tailor}. ( Zool.) See { Bluefish}. [ 1913 Webster]
Salter \ Salt" er\, n. One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish. [ 1913 Webster]
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