saltern

American  

[sawl-tern] / ˈsɔl tərn /

noun

1. a saltworks.

2. a plot of land laid out in pools for the evaporation of seawater to produce salt.

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saltern British  

/ ˈsɔːltən /

noun

1. another word for saltworks

2. a place where salt is obtained from pools of evaporated sea water

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Etymology

Origin of saltern

before 900; Old English sealtærn saltworks (not recorded in ME), equivalent to sealt salt ¹ + ærn building, house

Example Sentences

Historian Ian Saltern said Sir Goldsworthy must have had "mixed feelings" on returning to the place where he saw major defeat earlier in his life.

From BBC

The glow proceeded from the fires of the Imperial Saltern, erected at Ebensee. 

From Project Gutenberg

At the lower or northern end, a short divide separates it from the sea; and the waves, during the high westerly gales, run far inland: it would be easy to open a regular communication between the harbour and its saltern.

From Project Gutenberg

In the progress of the work, feeble as it may be, he thought himself performing the last human office to the memory of a friend, whom he loved, esteemed, and honoured:   "His saltern accumulem donis, et fungar inani   Munere."

From Project Gutenberg

Contra nullum unquam audivimus imperium, nullam civitatem non mediocriter saltern floruisse, quamdiu linguae sua gratia, suusque cultus constitit.

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