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salt meats

salt meats is the plural of salt meat.

Meaning of salt meat

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

Questions about salt meats

What is salt meats the plural of?
Salt meats is the plural of salt meat.

Words near salt meats in the dictionary

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

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