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salt horse

salt horse noun: salt beef.

Noun

salt horse (countable and uncountable, plural salt horses)

  1. (US, obsolete, uncountable, sailor's slang) salt beef
  2. (UK, countable) A naval officer or rating whose training and experience have qualified him as a seaman rather than in any specialised trade.

Forms of salt horse

pluralsalt horses

Origin of salt horse

From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passed off as beef.

Questions about salt horse

What does salt horse mean?
Salt horse means salt beef.
What part of speech is salt horse?
Salt horse is a noun.
What is the plural of salt horse?
The plural of salt horse is salt horses.

Words near salt horse in the dictionary

  1. salt grass
  2. salt grasses
  3. salt hay
  4. salt hays
  5. Salt Hill
  6. salt horse
  7. salt horses
  8. salt in the wound
  9. Salt Island
  10. salt junk
  11. salt lake

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