salt pan

noun

an undrained natural depression, as a crater or tectonic basin, in which the evaporation of water leaves a deposit of salt.

Origin of salt pan

First recorded in 1485–95

Words Nearby salt pan

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How to use salt pan in a sentence

Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan, "Come and ask me about it to-morrow, because I'm going to wash."
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard Kipling
Livingstone found that in every salt pan of the country there is a spring of water on one side.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. Badlam
Livingstone discovered one large salt pan with a deposit of salt an inch and a half in thickness.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. Badlam
In great glee Ellen danced along, luckily needing no entertainment from Mr. Van Brunt, who was devoted to his salt-pan.
The Wide, Wide World | Susan Warner
Put him on Juan Fernandez, and he would make a spelling-book first, and a salt-pan afterwards.
The Biglow Papers | James Russell Lowell

British Dictionary definitions for saltpan

saltpan

/ (ˈsɔːltˌpæn) /

noun

a shallow basin, usually in a desert region, containing salt, gypsum, etc, that was deposited from an evaporated salt lake

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Scientific definitions for salt pan

salt pan

A small, undrained, shallow depression in which water accumulates, evaporates, and deposits salt.
A small lake of brackish water occupying such a depression.

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