salt horse

noun

, Nautical Slang.

1. salted beef; salt junk.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt horse¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

The second is “Dance Innovators in Performance,” featuring “exciting artists who have been dancing everywhere but in the mainstream,” including Jasperse, Mann, Gervais, Seattle’s own Salt Horse and others.

From Seattle Times

A variety of Seattle performing artists — Jarrad Powell, Roger Nelson, Paul Taub, Stuart Dempster and all three members of dance/sound troupe Salt Horse — stage a rare performance of an unpublished Cage score from 1989, “Steps: A Composition for a Painting,” in combination with Cage’s “Atlas Eclipticalis” and “Winter Music.”

From Seattle Times

That first dinner, after the eternal bean-coffee, boiled tea, tinned meats, dried vegetables, and “salt horse” of one’s ship, in a neat restaurant, where it seems everything on earth can be obtained, will surprise most visitors.

From Project Gutenberg

The food provided is principally “salt horse” and “hard bread,” i.e., sailor’s biscuit of the most inferior description; and when scurvy ensues, as a natural consequence of exposure to damp and cold, with poor living superadded, the very lime-juice, which is nearly worthless if not pure, is found to be a miserable imitation or grossly adulterated with citric acid, which, strange as it may appear, has no anti-scorbutic properties.

From Project Gutenberg

It was the natural reaction from a long life of stern discipline, tempered by fighting, wounds, floggings, and marline-spikes, and for the most part cheerfully endured on a miserable diet of weevilly biscuit, “salt horse,” and pork full of maggots.

From Project Gutenberg