Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To salt; impregnate or season with salt.
  • noun A lamellar variety of pyroxene or augite, of a grayish-green color, from Sala, Sweden, and elsewhere. See pyroxene. Also spelled sahlite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To season with salt; to salt.
  • noun (Min.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mineralogy A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green colour.

Etymologies

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Sala +‎ -ite, after a town in Sweden.

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  • Marco: "I use the PowerCranks to do specific strength work-outs called SFR (salite forza resistenza), and a typical session would be like this:

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  • Marco: "I use the PowerCranks to do specific strength work-outs called SFR (salite forza resistenza), and a typical session would be like this:

    PezCyclingNews.com 2009

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