Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In dairying, to add the salt to the butter while it is being worked.
- To cure (fish, meat, hides, etc.) by salting and drying; dry-cure.
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Examples
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We may pickle apples, pears and peaches, but we ferment, brine and dry-salt only vegetables.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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It's like trying to sell our Pickled Luncheon Tidbits to a fellow in the black belt who doesn't buy anything but plain dry-salt hog in hunks and slabs.
Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903
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