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Salt mine

Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. Salter; superl. Saltest.] [AS. sealt, salt. See Salt, n.]

  1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. ``Salt tears.''
    --Chaucer.

  2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

  3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

    I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
    --Shak.

  4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak. Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. --Knight. Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett. Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process. Salt fish.

    1. Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food.

    2. A marine fish. Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] Salt lick. See Lick, n. Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid moth ( Spilosoma acr[ae]a which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly. Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb ( Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes. Salt-marsh hen (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under Rail. Salt-marsh terrapin (Zo["o]l.), the diamond-back. Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained. Salt pan.

      1. A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun.

      2. pl. Salt works.

        Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or made.

        Salt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.]

        Salt raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.

        Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]

        Salt spring, a spring of salt water.

        Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ( Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia.

        Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears.

        Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here.
        --Shak.

        Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.

        Salt-water tailor. (Zo["o]l.) See Bluefish.

Wiktionary
salt mine

n. 1 Any mine used for the extraction of salt. 2 (context by extension English) Any laborious work, especially in a confined space.

WordNet
salt mine

  1. n. a mine where salt is dug

  2. a job involving drudgery and confinement [syn: treadmill]

Usage examples of "salt mine".

They'd just march into some fucking salt mine, with the chlorophyll hack and some gene-splicing and some superconductives, and as long as theyhadtheir virching and cable TV, most of 'em would never even notice!

I remember once a party of prisoners were lost in a large salt mine, and were missed for several days.

Let's persuade her that the life of a slave in a salt mine is far, far worse than anything she can think of to do to him here.

He couldn't spread his wings in the salt mine without being whipped, and now his hands were chained behind his back each night, locking his wings tight against a body coated with salt dust and dripping with sweat.

I thought, took Long Lance by the shoulder, and we both ran down to the Avenida Las Salt Mine.

By placing calabash seeds inside rhinoceros horn lanterns, Prince Liu Sheng was able to establish the world's first twenty-four-hour-a-day salt mine.

I told him I was sorry but I did not have the faintest inclination to aggravate my back jouncing out to that dadgummed old salt mine (though it isn't really my back, the doctor says, but a gallbladder business aggravated by sitting, especially in a moving car).

When he woke up, his mouth was dry as a salt mine and tasted like a latrine.