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单词 saltern
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salternn.

Brit. /ˈsɒltən/, /ˈsɔːltən/, U.S. /ˈsɔltərn/, /ˈsɑltərn/
Etymology: Old English sealtærn : see salt n.1 and earn n.1
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.
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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).
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