Salter

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. {Salter}; superl. {Saltest}.] [AS.
     sealt, salt. See {Salt}, n.]
     1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt;
        prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted;
        as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." --Chaucer.
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     2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt
        marsh; salt grass.
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     3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
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              I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me. --Shak.
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     4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak.
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     {Salt acid} (Chem.), hydrochloric acid.
  
     {Salt block}, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt
        factory. --Knight.
  
     {Salt bottom}, a flat piece of ground covered with saline
        efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett.
  
     {Salt cake} (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of
        sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the
        first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to
        Leblanc's process.
  
     {Salt fish}.
        (a) Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar
            fishes that have been salted and dried for food.
        (b) A marine fish.
  
     {Salt garden}, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of
        sea water for the production of salt, employing large
        shallow basins excavated near the seashore.
  
     {Salt gauge}, an instrument used to test the strength of
        brine; a salimeter.
  
     {Salt horse}, salted beef. [Slang]
  
     {Salt junk}, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang]
  
     {Salt lick}. See {Lick}, n.
  
     {Salt marsh}, grass land subject to the overflow of salt
        water.
  
     {Salt-marsh caterpillar} (Zool.), an American bombycid moth
        ({Spilosoma acraea} which is very destructive to the
        salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also {woolly
        bear}. See Illust. under {Moth}, {Pupa}, and {Woolly
        bear}, under {Woolly}.
  
     {Salt-marsh fleabane} (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb
        ({Pluchea camphorata}) with rayless purplish heads,
        growing in salt marshes.
  
     {Salt-marsh hen} (Zool.), the clapper rail. See under {Rail}.
        
  
     {Salt-marsh terrapin} (Zool.), the diamond-back.
  
     {Salt mine}, a mine where rock salt is obtained.
  
     {Salt pan}.
        (a) A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also,
            a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is
            evaporated by the heat of the sun.
        (b) pl. Salt works.
  
     {Salt pit}, a pit where salt is obtained or made.
  
     {Salt rising}, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a
        principal ingredient. [U.S.]
  
     {Salt raker}, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or
        inclosures from the sea.
  
     {Salt sedative} (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]
  
     {Salt spring}, a spring of salt water.
  
     {Salt tree} (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Halimodendron
        argenteum}) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian
        region and in Siberia.
  
     {Salt water}, water impregnated with salt, as that of the
        ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also,
        tears.
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              Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see;
              And yet salt water blinds them not so much
              But they can see a sort of traitors here. --Shak.
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     {Salt-water sailor}, an ocean mariner.
  
     {Salt-water tailor}. (Zool.) See {Bluefish}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salter \Salt"er\, n.
     One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or
     fish.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  salter
       n 1: someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other
            foods
       2: someone who makes or deals in salt [syn: {salt merchant}]