单词 | saltern |
释义 | salternn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > place of wich716 saltern858 salt-housec1000 wich-work1298 salt-cotec1425 wich-house1534 walling-house1556 salt-works1566 marsh-work1587 saltfata1647 salt-makinga1647 salt-pan1708 brine-seeth1748 seal1756 rope-house1850 walling shed1894 saltery1899 858 in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 101 Butan ðem sealtern et fefresham & butan ðem þioda ðe to ðem sealtern limpð. 1681 J. Worlidge Systema Agric. 262 The refuse salt Earth that at the Salternes is cast out and of no value. 1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 32 A Boyling-House is called a Saltern. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 Ye greatest trade is by their Salterns. Ye sea water they draw into Trenches. 1748 W. Brownrigg Art of making Common 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. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 88 The coast becoming flat between the place and Lymington, is commodiously formed into salterns. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 234 A considerable precipitate of muriate of soda has taken place in these natural salterns. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 338/2 When salt was much dearer than it is now, the sea-water used to be concentrated in salterns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.858 |
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