Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, inhabiting salt water or the sea: as, a salt-water fish; a salt-water infusorian.
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Examples
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I came across it as a thing when I lived in the United States and it was known as salt-water toffee.
Evening Standard - Home Victoria Stewart 2011
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So whether its multinational oil companies or outlaw fishing fleets abusing our global commons salt-water special interests clearly pose an existential threat to food security and climate stability that terrorist fanatics like al-Qaeda can only aspire to.
David Helvarg: Oil, Terror, Tuna and You David Helvarg 2011
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Johannes Maartens touched me and pointed upward through cascading salt-water from the back-fling of the cliff.
Chapter 15 2010
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Like the refugees and renegades who slunk away in the salt marshes of the Adriatic and builded the palaces of powerful Venice on her deep-sunk piles, so these wretched hunted blacks builded power until they became masters of the mainland, controlling traffic and trade-routes, compelling the bushmen for ever after to remain in the bush and never to dare attempt the salt-water.
CHAPTER X 2010
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The old salt-water chief rolled his one eye and blinked a fair simulation of stupidity and innocence.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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So whether its multinational oil companies or outlaw fishing fleets abusing our global commons salt-water special interests clearly pose an existential threat to food security and climate stability that terrorist fanatics like al-Qaeda can only aspire to.
David Helvarg: Oil, Terror, Tuna and You David Helvarg 2011
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The developers of 77 12th St. are planning to rent apartments starting at $1,500 a month for one-bedroom units, with such amenities as granite kitchens and a salt-water pool.
Atlanta's Rental Rebound Maura Webber Sadovi 2011
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For Somo, tracing back to Somo its founder, worshipped the shark-god and the salt-water deities as well as the deities of the bush and swamp and mountain.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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MCO has a 3,000 gallon salt-water aquarium (in the food court), a fountain with changing water patterns and life-size statues of theme park characters for "last chance" photo ops.
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Return in three months, and the salt-water crowd will have traded back for it; also they will be out of tobacco by that time.
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