salt pan

Noun

salt pan (plural salt pans)

1. Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.

   Synonyms:

   salt flat

2. Synonym of saltern: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.
   • In order to provide a market for the coal, four salt pans were constructed a third of a mile south-east of the harbour. […] Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the...1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56

   Synonyms:

   saltern, pan