noun
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a person who deals in or manufactures salt
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a person who treats meat, fish, etc, with salt
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Etymology
Origin of salter
before 1000; Middle English; Old English sealtere saltmaker. See salt 1, -er 1
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One final thought: I'm a heavy salter, but do not season your bacon with salt, especially if you're using the miso.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
That includes a new salter which is already in and running as well as a new filter system which is being put in.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
While the rocks have been melted, the sea growing salter, and the birds and beasts perfecting themselves or degenerating, the fresh water has been always the same, without change or shadow of turning.
From The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish
At sundown Kekwick returned, and reported having found the springs which supply the creek, but they are salter than the sea, or the strongest brine that ever was made.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart
The waters of Lake Urumiyeh are probably as salt and as buoyant; those of Lake Elton in the steppe east of the Wolga, and of certain other Russian lakes, appear to be even salter.
His house, called the 'George,' in Bred Street, he gave to the salters; they to find a priest in the said church, to have six pounds thirteen and fourpence the year.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
On this land lived not only farm laborers, cattle herders, shepherds, goatherds, and pigherds, but craftsmen such as goldsmiths, hawk-keepers, dog-keepers, horse-keepers, huntsmen, foresters, builders, weaponsmiths, embroiderers, blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors, salters, bakers, cooks, and gardeners.
From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
Before then, the colliers and salters belonged to the soil.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
They have much pottery,—red, figured, and black,—platters, caskets, salters, bowls....
From Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
The colliers and salters were veritable slaves, and were subject to be sold together with the estates to which they belonged.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles
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