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drysalters

drysalters is the plural of drysalter.

Meaning of drysalter

Noun

drysalter (plural drysalters)

  1. (historical) A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
    • How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82

Questions about drysalters

What is drysalters the plural of?
Drysalters is the plural of drysalter.

Words near drysalters in the dictionary

  1. dryrooms
  2. dryrot
  3. drys
  4. drysalter
  5. drysalteries
  6. drysalters
  7. drysaltery
  8. dryscape
  9. dryscapes
  10. Drysdale
  11. Drysdales

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