Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A saltworks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt-works; a building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; more especially, a plot of retentive land, laid out in pools and walks, where the sea-water is admitted to be evaporated by the heat of the sun's rays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaeology An area used for
saltmaking , especially in theEast Anglian fenlands . - noun A
modern saltworks .
Etymologies
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Here is the definition of saltern from answers.com:
Archive 2007-06-01 Ron Buckmire 2007
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Here is the definition of saltern from answers.com:
Word of the Week: SALTERNS Ron Buckmire 2007
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At the lower or northern end, a short divide separates it from the sea; and the waves, during the high westerly gales, run far inland: it would be easy to open a regular communication between the harbour and its saltern.
The Land of Midian 2003
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At grammatici saltern omnes in hanc descendent rerum tenuitatem, desintne aliquae nobis necessariae literarum, non cum
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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At the lower or northern end, a short divide separates it from the sea; and the waves, during the high westerly gales, run far inland: it would be easy to open a regular communication between the harbour and its saltern.
The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Writing to Farrel, he says, '_Spero_ capitale saltern fore judicium.'
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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'Si quis cum falso deuario inventus fueril -- fiat justitia mea, saltern de dextro pugno et de testiculis.'
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Late morning was a trip to the saltern where we were able to see a large number of waders.
Kottu 2009
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In order to establish the extent of genetic diversity in natural populations of this microbe, the genomic sequence of reference strain DSM 13855 was compared to metagenomic fragments recovered from climax saltern crystallizers and obtained with 454 sequencing technology.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Lejla Pasic 2009
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In order to establish the extent of genetic diversity in natural populations of this microbe, the genomic sequence of reference strain DSM 13855 was compared to metagenomic fragments recovered from climax saltern crystallizers and obtained with 454 sequencing technology.
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