salt down
salt down verb: to salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
Verb
salt down (third-person singular simple present salts down, present participle salting down, simple past and past participle salted down)
- To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
- To salt (something).
- County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.1967 February 6, “Chicago Slapped Again: Snowstorm, Bitter Cold Hit Area”, in Warren Times-Mirror and Observer, volume 1, number 271, Warren, Pa.: Central Publishing Company, →OCLC, page A-1, column 3
- He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight.2014 March 20, Judith Felsenfeld, “The Fugitive”, in Blaustein’s Kiss: Stories, Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Epigraph Publishing Service, →ISBN, pages 123–124
Forms of salt down
| third-person singular present | salts down |
|---|---|
| present participle | salting down |
| past participle | salted down |
| past | salted down |
Questions about salt down
- What does salt down mean?
- Salt down means to salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
- What part of speech is salt down?
- Salt down is a verb.
- What is the past tense of salt down?
- The past tense of salt down is salted down.
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