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salts down

salts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of salt down.

Meaning of salt down

Verb

salt down (third-person singular simple present salts down, present participle salting down, simple past and past participle salted down)

  1. (dated, transitive, strictly) To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
  2. (transitive) To salt (something).
    • County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.1967 February 6, “Chicago Slapped Again: Snowstorm, Bitter Cold Hit Area”, in Warren Times-Mirror and Observer, volume 1, number 271, Warren, Pa.: Central Publishing Company, →OCLC, page A-1, column 3

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What is salts down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Salts down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of salt down.

Words near salts down in the dictionary

  1. saltpetrous
  2. Saltpond
  3. saltproof
  4. salts
  5. salts away
  6. salts down
  7. salts out
  8. salts the earth
  9. salts the mine
  10. salts up
  11. Saltses

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