salt-box

American  

[sawlt-boks] / ˈsɔltˌbɒks /

Or saltbox

noun

1. a box in which salt is kept.

2. a type of house found especially in New England, generally two full stories high in front and one story high in back, the roof having about the same pitch in both directions so that the ridge is well toward the front of the house.

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Etymology

Origin of salt-box

First recorded in 1605–15

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

salt-box

In the past few decades, McMansions have replaced salt-box homes that could have been easily picked up and moved away from the water, Jennings noted.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2014

The smoke went up from an Etna of peat in front of him, played round the notches of the chimney-crook, struck against the salt-box, and got lost among the flitches.

From The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Beatrice, being on kitchen duty, had access to the salt-box.

From The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil

At that time young Spelman was busy making a salt-box for his mother out of the sound bits of an old oak floor which his father had taken up because it was dry-rotted.

From Gutta-Percha Willie by George MacDonald

Also music's ministrants,—the lute, the horn, the fiddle, the pipe, the gong, the viol, the salt-box, the tambourine and the triangle, make a dead-wall dream of festive harmonies!

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

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