'To salt down' definitions:

Definition of 'To salt down'

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Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salted; p. pr. & vb. n. Salting.]
1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle. [1913 Webster]
2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. [1913 Webster]
To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]
To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money. [1913 Webster]

Words containing 'To salt down'

Above the salt,
Below the salt,
Salt,
Salted,
Salting,
Saltly,
Saltness,
salt i,
Acid salt,
Alkaline salt,
Amphid salt,
Baker's salt,
Basic salt,
Bay salt,
Binary salt,
Bitter salt,
Black salts,
Digestive salt,
Diuretic salt,
Double salt,
Epsom salt,
Epsom salts,
Essential salt,
Ethereal salt,
Glauber's salt,
Glauber's salts,
Haloid salt,
Lixivial salts,
Microcosmic salt,
Mineral salt,
Monsel's salt,
Neutral salt,
Oxy salt,
Per salt,
Permanent salt,
Pink salt,
Polychrest salt,
Primary salt,
Proto salt,
Prunella salt,
Rochelle salt,
Rock salt,
Salt Creek,
Salt Lake,
Salt Lick,
Salt acid,
Salt block,
Salt bottom,
Salt cake,
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Salt garden,
Salt gauge,
Salt horse,
Salt junk,
Salt marsh,
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Salt of Saturn,
Salt of Seignette,
Salt of Venus,
Salt of amber,
Salt of colcothar,
Salt of hartshorn,
Salt of lemons,
Salt of soda,
Salt of sorrel,
Salt of tartar,
Salt of tin,
Salt of wisdom,
Salt pan,
Salt pit,
Salt raker,
Salt rheum,
Salt rising,
Salt sedative,
Salt spring,
Salt tree,
Salt water,
Salts of lemon,
Sea salt,
Sedative salt,
Seignete's salt,
Sesqui salt,
Smelling salts,
Soda salts,
Spirit of salt,
Sulpho salt,
Sulphur salt,
To salt a mine,
To salt away,
Triple salt,
Vegetation of salts,
White salt,
bath salts,
bile salt,
bitter salts,
celery salt,
common salt,
dibasic salt,
garlic salt,
iodized salt,
old salt,
onion salt,
rochelle salts,
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salt flat,
salt ii,
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salt of lemon,
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salt plain,
salt pork,
salt rush,
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salt the city of,
salt valley of,
salts of sorrel,
seasoned salt,
sour salt,
table salt,
Cat-salt,
Green salt of Magnus,
Hair-salt,
North Salt Lake,
Salt Creek, CO,
Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake County,
Salt Lake, UT,
Salt Lick, KY,
Salt-green,
South Salt Lake,
Tamarisk salt tree,
great salt desert,
great salt lake,
pepper-and-salt,
salt marsh mallow,
salt reed grass,
salt-cured,
take with a grain of salt,
North Salt Lake, UT,
Salt Lake City, UT,
Salt Lake County, UT,
Salt-marsh caterpillar,
Salt-marsh fleabane,
Salt-marsh hen,
Salt-marsh terrapin,
Salt-water sailor,
Salt-water tailor,
South Salt Lake, UT,
low-salt diet,
perennial salt marsh aster,
salt-free diet,
salt-rising bread,
salt-water bream,
salt-water chub,
salt-water trout,
annual salt-marsh aster