dry-salt

[ drahy-sawlt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.

dry-salt

verb

1. to preserve (food) by salting and removing moisture

Word History and Origins

Origin of dry-salt¹

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

If you have many, or the weather is warm, they keep better in pickle than dry salt.

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Every one knows how different is the taste of fresh, dry salt, from that of salt in a dissolved state.

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The cheese is salted by rubbing dry salt on the surface or soaking the cheese in brine.

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Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.

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When you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt-cells until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.

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