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Salted

Salt \Salt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salted; p. pr. & vb. n. Salting.]

  1. 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.

  2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

    To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]

    To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money.

Wiktionary
salted
  1. To which salt has been added. v

  2. (en-past of: salt)

WordNet
salted

adj. (used especially of meats) preserved in salt [syn: salt-cured]

Usage examples of "salted".

Wash and drain two cupfuls of scallops, put into a saucepan and cover with salted boiling water, adding a bit of bay-leaf, four whole allspice, and two cloves.

In a court-yard, protected from the rays of the sun only by an awning, was a large walled bason, containing a solution of natron, in which the bodies were salted, and they were then dried in a stone vault, artificially supplied with hot air.

Clean a large bluefish, put into a baking-pan, pour over it a cupful of boiling salted water, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently.

The longshoreman, however, tied up the sack with the salted eels and tossed it nimbly over his shoulder.

The two gargoyles provided a steady stream of guaranteed fresh water, which pooled in two depressions of the cloud, so that Nada Naga could swim in one, and Mela Merwoman could swim in the other, after it had been appropriately salted.

Discretionary accounts, reimbursed expenses, overstated of course- a percentage of our expense allowance salted away, laundered clean, invested in the market.

This being the end of summer but not yet harvest time, the pantry shelves were nowhere near the height of what I hoped would be their autumn bounty, but still there were cheeses on the shelf, a huge stoneware crock of salted fish on the floor, and sacks of flour, corn, rice, beans, barley, and oatmeal.

Wash a cupful of rice in several waters, drain and parboil for five minutes in salted water at a galloping boil.

Peel and slice three small cucumbers, parboil in salted water, drain, and fry in butter with a little sugar.

Skin a six-pound cut of sturgeon, soak in salted water for an hour, drain, and parboil in fresh water.

Add also a quarter of a pound of beef marrow cut in small pieces and parboiled in salted water.

Shizuka exclaimed when she saw the delicacies of the season, raw sea bream and squid, broiled eel with green perilla and horseradish, pickled cucumbers and salted lotus root, rare black mushrooms and burdock, laid out on the lacquer trays.

This was partly because drinking it spaced out the viscous gobbets and partly because both Plaice and Bonden had salted the dish, which bred an unnatural thirst, but also because the wine was thoroughly agreeable in itself.

They ate the last handfuls of hot sticky salted maize porridge on the march and washed it down with water from the bottles that tasted of mud and algae.

Enjoying the unaccustomed luxury of the electric-heated neighborhood store, Colleen placed a half-dozen eggs, flour, salted herring, praties, milk, honey, and a hunk of farmer cheese in a basket.