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n. (context idiomatic English) A seasoned sailor, especially one who is hardy and forthright in manner.
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Old Salt is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Valient Thorr. It was released in July 2016 under Napalm Records.
Usage examples of "old salt".
One of the old salt trading passes, the best pass for many li in both directions.
I disliked the man,-- a tall, rawboned, dour old salt, -- but I watched with interest as he prepared his bait.
For all his years on the sea, he looked more like an English professor than an old salt.
Throughout a lifetime of collecting tales, only once had the Kielmark ever heard such weather described, and then by a gouty old salt who claimed to have survived the drowning of Tierl Enneth.
Niels had been to that fief of the Lund archbishopric too, on an earlier trip, and there met an old salt, crusty and trusty, who owned a boat in Sandvig.
From an old salt I learned that David Jones was skipper of the Isle of Mull, a fifty-five ton ketch used for fishing.