'Salt mine' definitions:
Definition of 'salt mine'
From: WordNet
noun
A mine where salt is dug
noun
A job involving drudgery and confinement [syn: treadmill, salt mine]
Definition of 'Salt mine'
From: GCIDE
- Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. Salter; superl. Saltest.] [AS. sealt, salt. See Salt, n.]
- 1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent. [1913 Webster]
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. --Knight.
- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.
- Salt fish. (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food. (b) A marine fish.
- Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
- Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter.
- Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang]
- Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]
- Salt lick. See Lick, n.
- Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water.
- Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zool.), an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acraea which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also {woolly bear}. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and {Woolly bear}, under Woolly.
- Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes.
- Salt-marsh hen (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under Rail.
- Salt-marsh terrapin (Zool.), the diamond-back.
- Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
- Salt pan. (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun. (b) pl. Salt works.
- Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or made.
- Salt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.]
- Salt raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.
- Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]
- Salt spring, a spring of salt water.
- Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Halimodendron argenteum}) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia.
- Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears. [1913 Webster]
- Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.
- Salt-water tailor. (Zool.) See Bluefish. [1913 Webster]