common salt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common salt
First recorded in 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Recent shortages ranged from wool for Continental Army uniforms to common salt.
From Time Magazine Archive
De Quervain of Switzerland retold the well-known prophylactic use of iodine in common salt against goitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life.
From Time Magazine Archive
He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lunar Caustic, Nitrate of Silver.—Give a large teaspoonful of common salt, in a glass of water.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by McCarty, Louis Philippe
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