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saltern
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n. 1 (context archaeology English) An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands. 2 A modern saltworks.
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Saltern is a word with a number of differing (but interrelated) meanings. In English archaeology, a saltern is an area used for salt making, especially in the East Anglian fenlands. There is an area called Salterns in Poole , Dorset , which was in active ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saltern \Salt"ern\, n. A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Usage examples of saltern.
From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.