transitive. To treat with salt as a preservative; to cure or preserve with salt, either in solid form or in the form of brine. Also with down, †up.

transitive. To sprinkle (meat, etc.) with salt or powdered spice, esp. for preserving; to salt; to corn or cure. Also intransitive. British regional…

transitive. To sprinkle with salt in grains; to season, pickle, or preserve with salt; to salt.

transitive. To pickle in brine. In passive in quots.

transitive. Originally Scottish. To sprinkle (fish, esp. herring) with salt, as part of the curing process.

To cover with crystalline grains of salt; to salt (meat); = corn, v. 3. Obsolete exc. dialect.

transitive. To cause (herrings) to become impregnated with salt or (pork) with saltpetre in curing.

transitive. North American. To clean and salt (fish) for preserving.

transitive. To rub (herring) with salt.