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Answer for the clue "Preserving, as pork ", 7 letters:
salting

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Word definitions for salting in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mineral exploration , salting is the process of adding gold or silver to an ore sample to change the value of the ore with intent to deceive potential buyers of the mine. In the US state of Arizona it is a class 6 felony . A famous example of salting ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Salting .] To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle. To fill with salt between the timbers ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of adding salt to food

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) the act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road 2 (context countable English) a salt marsh 3 (context uncountable English) The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence. vb. (present ...

Usage examples of salting.

Fortunately we have plenty of ammunition and the place is thick with game, so that those of the men who remain strong can kill all the food we want, even shooting on foot, and we women have made a great quantity of biltong by salting flesh and drying it in the sun.

Patroclus builds up the fire for a minute and then scatters the embers and sets the spits across the hottest part of the fire, salting each strip again.

We stored like squirrels, salting beans, pickling cabbage, bottling tomatoes and beetroot, even drying any mushrooms we found in the early autumn fields.

There was a motion afoot to have the whole thing moved farther from town, anyway, and the bonemeal plant and salting works along with it.

They preserved food by drying, salting, or a kind of bacterially induced homeostasis.

Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle, their livers removed, their fins cut off and their hides skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for salting.

Several fisherpeople were trawling a net through Eastlake, harvesting waterlife for drying and salting for winter.

Besides, when David first came to Virimonde, he'd taken the precaution of salting the Standing's Security forces with men specifically loyal to him.