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▪ I. salter1|ˈsɒltə(r), -ɔː-| [OE. sealtere, f. sealtan salt v.1: see -er1.] 1. A manufacturer of or dealer in salt; also spec. = drysalter, as in the title of one of the London livery companies (incorporated in 1558).
a1000Colloq. ælfric in Wr.-Wülcker 97 Sealtera [sic], hwæt us fremaþ cræft þin? c1000ælfric Gram. ix. (Z.) 47 Hic salinator, þes sealtere. 1392Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 342 Rob's Scott salter. 1402Rolls of Parlt. III. 519 Robt Brendewod, William Estace, Salters. 1418Jrnl. Archives City of London I. 51 Sal emptum per Bemond et Edwardum, Salters, infra civitatem Londoniarum vend'. 1507Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 22 Andrewe Evyngar, Cytezen and Salter of london. 1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. II. 293 The saidis salteris sall sell salt to the subjectis and carearis of this realme of sufficient mett and stuff. 1611Cotgr., Maligne, a Spring-tyde; called so by the Salters of Xaintonge. 1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 125 It is commonly sold in Salters-shops at Billingsgate. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman (1841) I. iv. 25 As a salter, A. B. has had experience enough in the materials for dyeing. 1846Ld. Campbell Chancellors cxxiii. IV. 567 The subject of this memoir was the son of a grocer and salter at Exeter. 2. A workman at a salt-works.
1606Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 10 That na persone..sall fie hyre or conduce ony saltaris Coilȝearis or coilberaris without ane sufficient testimoniall of thair Maister quhome they last seruit. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. vii, If sae mickle as a collier or a salter make a moonlight flitting. 1869Rogers Hist. Glean. I. 103 The colliers and salters..were only finally emancipated in 1799. 3. One who salts meat or fish.
1611J. Spicer (title) The sale of Salt, or, The seasoning of Soules, Namely such, as..whom the Author, which taketh the name of a Salter, is willing..to season with the Salt of the Word. 1714R. Smith Poems (1869) 12 Thy Colledge has been at Buckhaven, Where thou hast past thy time years seven among the Salters and the Fishers. 1757W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 41 They were salted by the King's Salters. 1778Projects in Ann. Reg. 125/1 The salter..crams as much salt as he can into the belly of the fish. 1883Chamb. Jrnl. 310 His wife and daughters are ‘gutters’ or packers or salters. b. One who salts bodies, in embalming.
1705Greenhill Embalming 283 The Surgeon or Embalmer, and..all other inferior Officers under him, such as the Dissector, Emboweller, Pollinctor, Salter. 4. A large vessel in which flesh is salted. dial.
1884Jefferies Red Deer 85 A farmer who had shot a deer put the animal as soon as possible into the salter out of sight. 1891Hartland Gloss., Salter (zălter), a large stone or earthenware trough used in salting bacon, etc. ▪ II. † ˈsalter2 Building Obs. (See quot.)
1688Holme Armoury iii. viii. 343/1 The Salter or Brick Axe..is to cut the rough and knotty places of Bricks, to make them lye flat and even in the Bed of Mortar. ▪ III. salter obs. f. saltire. ▪ IV. salter(e obs. ff. psalter. |