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pound salt

pound salt verb: to grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.

Verb

pound salt (third-person singular simple present pounds salt, present participle pounding salt, simple past and past participle pounded salt)

  1. To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
  2. Synonym of pound sand.
    • He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278
    • I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367
    Synonyms:
    pound sand

Synonyms of pound salt

Forms of pound salt

third-person singular presentpounds salt
present participlepounding salt
past participlepounded salt
pastpounded salt

Questions about pound salt

What does pound salt mean?
Pound salt means to grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
What part of speech is pound salt?
Pound salt is a verb.
What is the past tense of pound salt?
The past tense of pound salt is pounded salt.

Words near pound salt in the dictionary

  1. pound parties
  2. pound party
  3. pound puller
  4. pound pullers
  5. Pound Ridge
  6. pound salt
  7. pound sand
  8. pound sand into a rathole
  9. pound Scots
  10. pound shop
  11. pound shops

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