Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crude sodium sulphate which occurs as a by-product in the manufacture of hydrochloric acid on a large scale from sodium chlorid: a British commercial name.
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Examples
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There he bent his head, broke a salt-cake upon the marble shelf, and laid his laurel wreath upon it.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Everything was in working order at last; the mules were bringing up fuel from below the timber-line, the cachitanderas (an Hispano-Quichua word meaning "salt-cake workers") were busy moulding and packing the salt for delivery to the mule and donkey trains which waited all day to take it away, and the salt was selling like hot cakes at the same price as sugar in New York.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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A sacrifice of fruits was offered by the pontiffs in the presence of ten witnesses; the contracting parties were seated on the same sheepskin; they tasted a salt-cake of _far_ or rice; and this confarreation, which denoted the ancient food of Italy, served as an emblem of their mystic union of mind and body.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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In front of it was the table at which the family took their meals, and on this was placed the salt-cellar (_salinum_), and the sacred salt-cake, baked even in historical times in primitive fashion by the daughters of the family, as in all periods for the State by the Vestal virgins.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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