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saltcake

saltcake is the alternative form of salt cake.

Meaning of salt cake

Noun

salt cake (countable and uncountable, plural salt cakes)

  1. (historical) Impure solid sodium sulfate, produced in 19th-20th cc. by pouring sulfuric acid on table salt and formerly used in production of glasses, soaps etc.

Forms of saltcake

pluralsaltcakes

Questions about saltcake

What is saltcake the alternative form of?
Saltcake is the alternative form of salt cake.

Words near saltcake in the dictionary

  1. Saltburn
  2. Saltburn, Marske and New Marske
  3. Saltburn-by-the-Sea
  4. saltbush
  5. saltbushes
  6. saltcake
  7. saltcakes
  8. saltcat
  9. saltcats
  10. saltcellar
  11. saltcellars

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