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saltery|ˈsɒltərɪ, -ɔː-|
[f. salter: see -ery.]
†1. Only attrib. in saltery ware: the goods dealt in by salt-merchants. Obs.
1628Order in Council in Abram Mem. Preston Guilds (1882) 41/2 To sett on saile..any manner of..grocery wares, or saltery wares. 1643Ord. Parlt. for Levying Moneys by Way of Excise 7 All sorts of Saltery-wares Imported.
2. A salt-works.
1899H. G. Graham Social Life Scot. 18th C. vii. I. 228 The salteries of Prestonpans, where the salters were bondsmen for life.
3. N. Amer. A factory where fish is prepared for storage by salting. Now chiefly Hist.
1903Sci. Amer. Suppl. 21 Mar. 22751/3 During 1900 there was but one saltery operated solely as such in this district. It is situated on the Nushagak and had an output of 7,186 barrels of red-fish and 536 barrels of king salmon for the season. 1960M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds viii. 132 A few bricks and a couple of rotted and barnacled pilings tell of a long-forgotten cannery or saltery. 1972L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag ix. 218 Alert Bay was once a small saltery to preserve salmon prior to shipment to Victoria. |