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
So spoke the ear-ringed sailor, who might never have seen a salter water than the Thames.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson
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 Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
"If these troublous times hold long amongst us," wrote William Hallam, a salter of Burnham, in Essex County, England, "we must all faine come to Virginia."
From England in America, 1580-1652 by Tyler, Lyon Gardiner
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 Reilly, S. A.
The case excited much interest, and probably had some effect in leading to the alteration in the law relating to colliers and salters which shortly after followed.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel
You knew Tommy Hill, the wettest of dry salters.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
Before then, the colliers and salters belonged to the soil.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
The existence of this species of slavery being thought irreconcilable with the spirit of liberty, colliers and salters were declared free, and put upon the same footing with other servants, by the Act 15 Geo.
From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir
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