单词 | salt-well |
释义 | salt-welln. A salt spring, well, or pit; now, a bored well from which brine is obtained for salt-making. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > [noun] > salt or brine salt-wellc950 salt-pit1398 nitre pit1601 seathc1682 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Prol. 1 Of saltwælla ðone æne in-dranc. 1042 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 70 Ðer ofer ða stræt æfter ðam gemære in saltwyllan; of saltwyllan in segchæma gemær.] a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. liii. 1318 Som licour is ypressed and wronge out of fruyt of trees... And som cometh of veynes of þe erþe, as water of salt welles. a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1899) II. ii. 296 The freashe water with exceedynge fluddes overflowethe the banckes and for a season drownethe the saltwells. 1656 Smith & Webb Vale-Royal i. 19 The Salt-wells, which they call Brine-pits; out of the which, they make yearly a great quantity of fine white Salt. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 30 Salt was..made in Cappadocia from salt wells. 1848 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson tr. F. Knapp Chem. Technol. I. 260 Salt wells..are..frequently found ready formed in nature, wherever a spring, during its course, has come in contact with a bed of rock-salt. 1892 Jackson in Lee Hist. Columbus I. 791 While working in the saltwells of Virginia. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker weller1440 salt-maker1483 saliner1543 waller1600 salter1606 saltweller1624 wich-waller1670 salt-worker1680 brine-manc1682 brinerc1682 wich-man1688 1624 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 108, lf. 2) Samwell Smyth, saltweller. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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