Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of sauce.
  • noun A mud volcano; a conical hill of soft, muddy material, formed from the decomposition of volcanic rock, and forced upward by the currents of gas escaping from the solfataric region beneath.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name.

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  • noun A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts.

Etymologies

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  • At last, a word for those who like a little salt in their mud volcano.

    June 22, 2010