What is "salter"

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.

Salter \Salt"er\, n. One who makes, sells, or applies salt; one who salts meat or fish.

n. One who makes, sells, or applies salt.

1. n. someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods

2. someone who makes or deals in salt [syn: salt merchant]

Salter, derived from salt, meaning extractor or trader of salt (from the Middle Ages), is a surname or more rarely a first name, and may refer to:

• Albert Salter (1816–1874), Canadian surveyor
• Andrew Salter (1914–1996), American psychotherapist
• Anna Salter, American psychologist and novelist
• George Salter (1897-1967), American designer
• George Salter, (1834-1911) UK cricketer
• Hans J. Salter (1896–1994), American film composer
• Herbert Salter (1839–1894), English cricketer
• James Salter (1925–2015), American writer
• James Arthur Salter (1881–1975), British politician and academic
• John W. Salter (1852–1927), American farmer and politician
• John William Salter (1820–1869), English naturalist and paleontologist
• June Salter (1932–2001), Australian actress
• Lewis Salter (1926–1989), American physicist
• Mandy Salter fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Mark Salter, American speechwriter
• Mark Salter (born 1980), English footballer
• Martin Salter (born 1954), UK member of parliament
• Mary Jo Salter (born 1954), American poet
• Michael Salter (born 1967) U.S. contemporary artist
• Richard Salter (disambiguation)
• Robert B. Salter (1924–2010), Canadian pediatric orthopedic surgeon
• Robert M. Salter (1920–2011), American engineer
• Stephen Salter (born 1938), Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design and inventor of the Salter duck
• Susanna M. Salter (1860–1961), American politician, first woman mayor in the United States
• William Salter (disambiguation)