dry-salt

[ drahy-sawlt ]

/ ˈdraɪˌsɔlt /

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verb (used with object)

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

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Origin of dry-salt

First recorded in 1615–25

Words nearby dry-salt

dry riser, dry-roasted, dry rot, dry rot fungus, dry run, dry-salt, drysalter, Drysdale, dry-shod, dry sink, dry slope

How to use dry-salt in a sentence

If you have many, or the weather is warm, they keep better in pickle than dry salt.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889|Barkham Burroughs
Every one knows how different is the taste of fresh, dry salt, from that of salt in a dissolved state.
Cottage Economy|William Cobbett
The cheese is salted by rubbing dry salt on the surface or soaking the cheese in brine.
The Book of Cheese|Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.
A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories|Mary Hallock Foote

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.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million|Sarah Josepha Hale

British Dictionary definitions for dry-salt

dry-salt

verb

to preserve (food) by salting and removing moisture

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