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saltern

[sawl-tern]

noun

a saltworks.

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

Origin of saltern

before 900; Old English sealtærn saltworks (not recorded in ME), equivalent to sealt salt¹ + ærn building, house

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British Dictionary definitions for saltern

saltern

noun

another word for saltworks

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

Word Origin for saltern

Old English saltærn, from salt + ærn house. Compare barn 1, ransack

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