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saltery

noun

Etymology

From salt + -ery, or in sense 3, salter + -y.

  1. inherited from *sḗh₂l✻ — “salt”
  2. inherited from *saltą✻
  3. inherited from *salt✻
  4. inherited from sealt
  5. inherited from salt
  6. suffixed as saltery — “salt + ery”

Definitions

  1. A saltworks.

  2. A place for fish salting.

  3. The field or profession of a salter. (Compare drysaltery)

    • saltery wares

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA