salter
noun
a person who makes or sells salt.
salters
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pluralof salter.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Less than a hundred years ago, the colliers and salters of Scotland were slaves.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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
Every piece then being carefully wiped and examined, and the veins cleared of the coagulated blood, they were handed to the salters, whilst the flesh remained still warm.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
