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dry-salt
[ drahy-sawlt ]
verb (used with object)
- to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.
dry-salt
verb
- to preserve (food) by salting and removing moisture
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dry-salt1
First recorded in 1615–25
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Example Sentences
If you have many, or the weather is warm, they keep better in pickle than dry salt.
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Every one knows how different is the taste of fresh, dry salt, from that of salt in a dissolved state.
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The cheese is salted by rubbing dry salt on the surface or soaking the cheese in brine.
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Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.
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When you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt-cells until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.
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