Salter definition

sôltər
A surname​.
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One that manufactures or sells salt.
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One that treats meat, fish, or other foods with salt.
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A person who makes or sells salt.
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A person who salts meat, fish, etc.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
salter
Plural:
salters

Salter Sentence Examples

  • The salter waters apparently tend to make their way westwards close to the African coast, and at the bottom the highest salinities have been observed south of Crete.

  • The very dense water of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean makes the column of water salter and heavier and the level lower than in the ocean beyond the straits.

  • Salter, the palaeontologist; and in 1852 he included the Llandeilo and Bala beds (Silurian) in the Upper Cambrian.

  • This attitude he maintained until the year of his death (1873), when there appeared his introduction to Salter's Catalogue of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils.

  • This statement holds good for the Gulf of Suez, in which the water is much salter than in the open;sea; but in the Gulf of Akaba the distribution is exceedingly uniform, nowhere differing much from an average of 40.6 per mille.

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