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saltern
[ sawl-tern ]
noun
- a saltworks.
- a plot of land laid out in pools for the evaporation of seawater to produce salt.
saltern
/ ˈɔːə /
noun
- another word for saltworks
- a place where salt is obtained from pools of evaporated sea water
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of saltern1
Example Sentences
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.
The glow proceeded from the fires of the Imperial Saltern, erected at Ebensee.
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.
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."
Contra nullum unquam audivimus imperium, nullam civitatem non mediocriter saltern floruisse, quamdiu linguae sua gratia, suusque cultus constitit.
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