Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A house or place where salt is made.
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Examples
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Around the town, the surrounding marshes were divided into salt-works, each with its own pans and cottages for the free-spirited saulniers, who managed the marshland and brought the salt to town by boat.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Around the town, the surrounding marshes were divided into salt-works, each with its own pans and cottages for the free-spirited saulniers, who managed the marshland and brought the salt to town by boat.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Here are the salt-works which supply the whole country as far as Sennaar with salt.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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I found here Mr. Goldmann, the eldest son of the Governor of the Moluccas, who was superintending the establishment of some Government salt-works.
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From Weyburn west lies Clye, where there are large salt-works and very good salt made, which is sold all over the county, and sometimes sent to Holland and to the Baltic.
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The salt-works at St. Ubes are basins in the sand, and the sun produces the evaporation, but here there is no beach.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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From Weyburn west lies Clye, where there are large salt-works and very good salt made, which is sold all over the county, and sometimes sent to Holland and to the Baltic.
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But in the evenin ', instead of bein' close to the salt-works as I expected, there I was agin, under the Patriarch.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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Seven miles to the N.W. are the salt-works of Barletta, now known under the name of Margherita di
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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At the same time arrangements were made between Austria and Hungary to pay off about 80 million of exchequer bills which had been issued on the security of the government salt-works, and were therefore called "_salinenscheine. _"
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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