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saltern

[ sawl-tern ]

noun

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


saltern

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. another word for saltworks
  2. a place where salt is obtained from pools of evaporated sea water
“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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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of saltern1

before 900; Old English 𲹱æ saltworks (not recorded in ME), equivalent to sealt salt 1 + æ building, house
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of saltern1

Old English saltæ, from salt + æ house. Compare barn 1, ransack
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Historian Ian Saltern said Sir Goldsworthy must have had "mixed feelings" on returning to the place where he saw major defeat earlier in his life.

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The glow proceeded from the fires of the Imperial Saltern, erected at Ebensee. 

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At the lower or northern end, a short divide separates it from the sea; and the waves, during the high westerly gales, run far inland: it would be easy to open a regular communication between the harbour and its saltern.

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In the progress of the work, feeble as it may be, he thought himself performing the last human office to the memory of a friend, whom he loved, esteemed, and honoured:   "His saltern accumulem donis, et fungar inani   Munere."

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Contra nullum unquam audivimus imperium, nullam civitatem non mediocriter saltern floruisse, quamdiu linguae sua gratia, suusque cultus constitit.

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