Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A factory in which salted fish is prepared and put up for market.

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Examples

  • Wooden sidewalks connect the houses with the local businesses—several galleries, a restaurant that is located in an old saltery, several oyster farms—and in the summer, when the local population grows to about 150, day-trippers promenade that boardwalk.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • These included a spring house that supplied fresh water for the fish farm, and the port with its amphora factory and saltery.

    Portus Cosanus 2003

  • They likely also controlled the fishery and saltery where the famous fish sauce of the Romans known as garum was made from the guts of fish left to ferment in the hot Mediterranean sun.

    Portus Cosanus 2003

  • Balt isn't the kind of man to be disciplined; so, not having enough money to build a cannery, he took his scanty capital and started a saltery on his own account.

    The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Whether he would have fulfilled his employer's prediction, and some day been at the head of a saltery of his own, we can not tell; but in time he became dissatisfied with his situation, and returning home, waited for Providence to indicate some new path on which to enter.

    From Canal Boy to President Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 1881

  • “If you'll stay with me, keep my 'counts, and' tend to the saltery, I'll find you, and give you fourteen dollars a month.”

    From Canal Boy to President Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 1881

  • "If you'll stay with me, keep my 'counts, and' tend to the saltery, I'll find you, and give you fourteen dollars a month."

    From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger 1865

  • Whether he would have fulfilled his employer's prediction, and some day been at the head of a saltery of his own, we can not tell; but in time he became dissatisfied with his situation, and returning home, waited for Providence to indicate some new path on which to enter.

    From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield Horatio Alger 1865

  • Than robes rich, rebeck, or saltery. and presented curious arm-chairs, towers, and the figures of

    The Antiquary 1845

  • The Captain's windows had been cleaned, the walls had been cleaned, the stove had been cleaned, and everything the stove excepted, was wet, and shining with soft soap and sand: the smell of which dry-saltery impregnated the air.

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

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