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saltings

saltings is the plural of salting.

Meaning of salting

Noun

salting (countable and uncountable, plural saltings)

  1. (uncountable) The act of sprinkling salt, as on food or on an icy road.
  2. (countable) A salt marsh.
    • Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41
  3. (uncountable) The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
  4. (UK, historical) The celebration of the Eton montem.

Phrases with saltings

Questions about saltings

What is saltings the plural of?
Saltings is the plural of salting.

Words near saltings in the dictionary

  1. salting down
  2. salting out
  3. salting the earth
  4. salting the mine
  5. salting up
  6. saltings
  7. saltiphone
  8. saltiphones
  9. saltire
  10. saltired
  11. saltires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saltings (page history and authors); salting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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