| 释义 |
saltern|ˈsɒltən, -ɔː-|
[OE. sealtærn: see salt n.1 and earn n.]
A building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; a salt-works; also, a plot of land, laid out in pools and walks, into which the sea-water is admitted and allowed to evaporate naturally.
858in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 101 Butan ðem sealtern et fefresham & butan ðem þioda ðe to ðem sealtern limpð. 1681Worlidge Syst. Agric. 262 The refuse salt Earth that at the Salternes is cast out and of no value. 1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 32 A Boyling-House is called a Saltern. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 Ye greatest trade is by their Salterns. Ye sea water they draw into Trenches. 1748Brownrigg Art of Making Salt 50 At some convenient place near the sea shore is erected the saltern. This is a long, low building, consisting of two parts; one of which is called the fore-house, and the other the pan-house or boiling-house. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery II. 88 The coast becoming flat between the place and Lymington, is commodiously formed into salterns. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 234 A considerable precipitate of muriate of soda has taken place in these natural salterns. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 338/2 When salt was much dearer than it is now, the sea-water used to be concentrated in salterns. |