Definitions for Salters

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Salters salt·er

Spelling: [sawl-ter]

IPA: /ˈsɔl tər/

Salters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in Salters (aelrsst).

Definitions for Salters

noun

1. a person who makes or sells salt.
2. a person who salts meat, fish, etc.
3. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
4. table salt mixed with a particular herb or seasoning for which it is named:
5. Chemistry. any of a class of compounds formed by the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of an acid with elements or groups, which are composed of anions and cations, and which usually ionize in solution; a product formed by the neutralization of an acid by a base.
6. salts, any of various salts used as purgatives, as Epsom salts.
7. an element that gives liveliness, piquancy, or pungency:
8. wit; pungency.
9. a small, usually open dish, as of silver or glass, used on the table for holding salt.
10. Informal. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one:

Idioms

1. rub salt in / into someone's wounds, to make someone's bad situation even worse.
2. with a grain / pinch of salt, with reserve or allowance; with an attitude of skepticism:
3. worth one's salt, deserving of one's wages or salary:

adjective

1. containing salt; having the taste of salt:
2. cured or preserved with salt:
3. inundated by or growing in salt water:
4. producing the one of the four basic taste sensations that is not sweet, sour, or bitter.
5. pungent or sharp:
6. lustful; lecherous.

Verb phrases

1. salt away, Also, salt down. to preserve by adding quantities of salt to, as meat. Informal. to keep in reserve; store away; save:
2. salt out, to separate (a dissolved substance) from a solution by the addition of a salt, especially common salt.

verb (used with object)

1. to season with salt.
2. to cure, preserve, or treat with salt.
3. to furnish with salt:
4. to treat with common salt or with any chemical salt.
5. to spread salt, especially rock salt, on so as to melt snow or ice:
6. to introduce rich ore or other valuable matter fraudulently into (a mine, the ground, a mineral sample, etc.) to create a false impression of value.
7. to add interest or excitement to:

Origin of Salters

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sealtere saltmaker. See salt¹, -er¹

Examples for Salters

The journey that salter and McCain had been on together for so many years had come to an end.

For now, salter is keeping mum, at the request of Simon & Schuster editor Jonathan Karp.

Who, after all, were Noah and salter Quick—what was their life-story.

In a shadow boxing bout, Schmidt accidentally blackened salter's eye.

You know the man I was telling you of last night—salter Quick?

No word yet from Karp as to whether salter was being too hard on himself.

Yet—Noah and salter Quick were on her—and were living five years later?

Editor's Note: A previous verison of said salter was from Illinois, not Michigan.

salter Quick saw it, too, and nodded significantly in its direction.

"Probably to some place that salter Quick knew of," I suggested.