SALTING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Salting

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/sˈɔltɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Salting n.

The act of sprinkling, impregnating, or furnishing, with salt.

A salt marsh.

verb

Salt v. t. (past & past part. salted; pres. part. salting)

To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. (Cant)

To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

Salt v. i. To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.

See images of 'Salting'

Etymology of 'Salting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Salting" Quotes from Famous Books

... sufficient quantity with the food, worms will result.[FN14] It may, therefore, be added in small quantity, and with advantage, even to the farinaceous food of infants. Salted meats, however, should never be permitted to the child; for by the process of salting the fibre of the meat is so changed, that it is less nutritive, ...

— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D.

... wriggling up on land and making their way to other water. The fish after being caught are taken to the temporary shack and placed in water[63] until such time as the owners are ready for the cleaning and salting operations. ...

— The Manbos of Mindano - Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir • John M. Garvan

... his companions rested for a week; which was spent in caulking and repairing their boat and sail, drying and salting the flesh of fowl and turtle, and in filling every available vessel with the precious fluid so liberally furnished by their patron ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various

... the ship's crew were laying in a store of provisions; a large tent was erected on shore for salting the meat; the cooper lived in it, and hung up his hammock at one end. The beef which had been killed during the day was also hung up all around, in readiness for salting. One night a large pack of jackals came down ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

... present the annual export of hides from Monte Video amounts to three hundred thousand; and the home consumption, from waste, is very considerable. An estanciero told me that he often had to send large herds of cattle a long journey to a salting establishment, and that the tired beasts were frequently obliged to be killed and skinned; but that he could never persuade the Gauchos to eat of them, and every evening a fresh beast was slaughtered for their suppers! The view of the Rio Negro from ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

More quotes...