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† ˈsalt-stone Obs.
[OE. sealtstán: see salt n.1 and stone n. Cf. Du. zoutsteen, MHG. salzsteyn (G. -stein), ON. saltsteinn.]
1. Rock-salt; a mass of rock-salt.
In early use chiefly in allusions to the fate of Lot's wife.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 2564 (Gr.) Heo on sealtstanes sona wurde anlicnesse æfre siððan. a1000Sax. Leechd. I. 374 Ᵹenim ᵹeoluwne stan & salt stan & pipor. a1300Cursor M. 2855 In a salt stan men seis hir stand. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 768/2 Hic cautes, a salt-stone. 1535Fisher Wayes to perfect Religion Wks. (1876) 370. 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 409 Sal natiuus vel fossilis,..Salt naturall, or that is digged out of the earth: saltstone. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 37 Besides its saltness it [sc. the water] has such a stink, that it equals the salt stone. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Hungary (1685) 94 The colour of the Saltstone is somewhat gray.
attrib.1638Junius Paint. Ancients 91 The woman..keeping still her old posture in the same salt-stone image.
2. A salt-cat for pigeons.
1425in Kennett Par. Antiq. (1818) II. 255, i saltstone empt. pro columbario. 1584in Rogers Agric. & Prices VI. 575/1, 4 saltstones for the dovecot {at} 1/9. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxii. 165 Pigeons delight in salt stones. |