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salts the mine

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

Meaning of salt the mine

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see salt, the, mine.
    • He then discovered that Lovell had salted the mine with ore from the Little Pittsburgh.1989, John Burke, The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 53
  2. (broadly) To set up a confidence trick; to plant false evidence of the value of something.
    • "Yes. I thought it would be a shrewd move to salt the mine." I didn't get this. She seemed to me an aunt who was talking in riddles.1954, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 86

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

Words near salts the mine in the dictionary

  1. salts
  2. salts away
  3. salts down
  4. salts out
  5. salts the earth
  6. salts the mine
  7. salts up
  8. Saltses
  9. saltshaker
  10. saltshakers
  11. Saltsman

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