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单词 saltern
释义

saltern

[ sawl-tern ]
/ ˈsɔl tərn /

noun

a saltworks.
a plot of land laid out in pools for the evaporation of seawater to produce salt.

Origin of saltern

before 900; Old English sealtærn saltworks (not recorded in ME), equivalent to sealtsalt1 + ærn building, house

Words nearby saltern

Salteaux, salted, Salten, salter, Salter-Harris classification, saltern, saltfish, salt flat, salt gland, saltglaze, salt grass
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British Dictionary definitions for saltern

saltern
/ (ˈsɔːltən) /

noun

another word for saltworks
a place where salt is obtained from pools of evaporated sea water

Word Origin for saltern

Old English saltærn, from salt + ærn house. Compare barn 1, ransack
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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