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salt meat

salt meat noun: meat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation.

Noun

salt meat (countable and uncountable, plural salt meats)

  1. Meat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation.
    • Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 196

Forms of salt meat

pluralsalt meats

Questions about salt meat

What does salt meat mean?
Salt meat means meat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation.
What part of speech is salt meat?
Salt meat is a noun.
What is the plural of salt meat?
The plural of salt meat is salt meats.

Words near salt meat in the dictionary

  1. salt marsh hay
  2. salt marsh hays
  3. salt marsh moth
  4. salt marsh moths
  5. salt marshes
  6. salt meat
  7. salt meats
  8. salt mine
  9. salt mines
  10. salt myrtle
  11. salt of amber

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