Definitions for bay-salt

bay-salt bay salt

Bay-Salt is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in bay-salt (-aablsty).

Definitions for bay-salt

noun

  1. salt derived by evaporating seawater in the sun.

Origin of bay-salt

late Middle English word dating back to 1425-75

Examples for bay-salt

Make a strong brine with bay salt, common salt, and saltpetre, and put in ribs of beef for nine days.

Common salt may be substituted for bay salt, but it is less powerfully antiseptic, and the flavour is less grateful.

Beat fine two ounces of saltpetre, and two pounds of bay salt well dried, and mix them with some of the heated salt.

After it has been a week in the pickle, boil a pint of vinegar, with two ounces of bay salt.

These delicate fish are preserved in barrels with bay salt, and no other of the finny tribe has so fine a flavour.

Mr. Brickwood also, while quoting ‘Stonehenge’ on this point, recommends bathing with bay salt and water.

Small quantities of iron, lignite, asphalt and bay salt are the only minerals of commercial importance.

My father presented him with some bay salt out of the wooden shoe which was hung on the mantelpiece.

Winthrop mentions among his supplies, "White, Spanish, and bay salt."

Throw them into a pan of pump water, sprinkle on a handful of bay salt, stir it about, and then take out the fish.

Word Value for bay-salt
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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