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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
And as she spoke the bitter tears were falling On his still face, all salter than the sea. p.
From The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter
He, forthwith, was apprenticed to his cousin to learn the trade of a salter, and was described by the family as a "prettie wittie boy."
From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester
William Hallam, a salter, wrote, "I fear if these times hold amongst us, we must all be faine to come to Virginia."
From Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
Before then, the colliers and salters belonged to the soil.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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
Coming to the inferior officers and artificers, we have carpenters, smiths, goldsmiths, farriers, potters, ditchers, launders, armorers, fishermen, millers, bakers, salters, tailors, and barbers.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Less than a hundred years ago, the colliers and salters of Scotland were slaves.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
You knew Tommy Hill, the wettest of dry salters.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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