'Salt pit' definitions:

Definition of 'Salt pit'

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  • 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]