Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that manufactures or sells salt.
- n. One that treats meat, fish, or other foods with salt.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes, sells, or deals in salt.
- n. A drysalter. The incorporated salters, or drysalters, of London form one of the city livery companies.
- n. One who salts meat or fish. The salter in a fishing-vessel receives the fish from the splitter, strews salt on them, and stows them away in compact layers with the skin down.
- n. A trout about leaving salt water to ascend a stream.
Wiktionary
- n. One who makes, sells, or applies salt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods
- n. someone who makes or deals in salt
Examples
“You've been risking your life and that pretty pink English skin of yours for one of the most worthless men in British Columbia; he's been a cattle rustler, a 'salter' of gold mines, and everything that is discreditable; it makes me indignant.”
“Apparently a wealthy citizen and "salter" of London.”
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
“a 'salter' of gold mines, and everything that is discreditable; it makes me indignant.”
“Grace said ... first of all, i'm a notorious over-salter. not for myself -- i crave the stuff -- but other people say it's too much. moving on to more important things, this is a sensational dish! it would certainly soothe a person's body and spirit.”
“The Tea Party folks seem to have a lot of racists and haters in their ranks. noreen salter”
“A blockbuster proposed the other night: A vivacious young salter and her plight.”
“In 1523, the king gave her a silver cup, Wolsey sent her a gold salter, and the countess of Devonshire gave her a gold cross. 54 In 1524, the same countess gave her a silver gilt image of the Virgin, Wolsey gave her a saucer of gold, and the Duke of Norfolk sent her a silver cup. 55”
“I substituted Pecrino, which might have been a tad sharper and salter than Manchego, but still had the good muskiness of a sheep's milk cheese.”
“You're Welcome America" is a ribald wound-salter and, in terms of the Bush legacy, everything”
“I think this is the most likely explanation. salter made it up.”
Solzhenitsyn Biographer: Cross-In-Dirt Gulag Story Never Happened
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