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
His ancestry is still in some doubt in spite of the efforts to trace it to one John Howland, "gentleman and citizen and salter" of London.
From The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
About two miles from Nicholson's Island the water was nine fathoms deep, and had a brackish taste; but as we continued our course to the northward, it became shoaler and salter.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
But in this process of heating, evaporation goes on to a large extent; hence the waters become salter than those elsewhere.
From The Ocean and its Wonders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
Less than a hundred years ago, the colliers and salters of Scotland were slaves.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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
Before then, the colliers and salters belonged to the soil.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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 Sir Walter Scott
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