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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saltine

"salted flat cracker," 1907, short for saltine cracker (1894), from salt (n.) + -ine (1).

Wiktionary
saltine

n. (context US English) A thin, crisp, salted, customarily white-colored cracker, a soda cracker; the most common of all US crackers; (context British English) soda biscuit.

WordNet
saltine

n. a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking

Usage examples of "saltine".

Then he lowered her head back to the pillow, handed her a single saltine, and urged her to take one bite.

She put the tray between them, sat cross-legged, facing him, and sipped her wine as Jake squeezed a mountain of processed cheese onto a saltine and popped it into his mouth.

There Jerome hung, skinny, sunken-chested, as white as a saltine, his face scrunched up and one hand clutching his nuts.

She puts them on a metal tray, adds some saltine crackers and a bottle of ginger ale for her, and a lunchbox bag of Fritos and a glass of milk for Mary Louise, and carries the whole tray into the den.

She also had a little Baggie filled with twelve saltines, the perks of being a pregnant woman.

Finally he happened on a waxpac of Saltines and began washing them down with water.

Father John crumpled some saltines into his bowl of chicken soup, the way his father had always done.

Kraft cheese, and if you are hard up, you can have it on Saltines, like we used to do when you and the boys were at home.

She finds the box of Saltines in the cupboard, spreads some rhubarb between two crackers, and eats it.

When I opened the box of saltines, I found a rig tucked in between the wax-paper packets of crackers.

He would begin to crawl toward the kitchen, to pull down a box of saltines, to kick the table and make a desiccated tangerine fall from the bowl up there.

It had mugs of tea on it, and a plate of saltines, and sugar and milk and part of a lemon.

It had mugs of tea on it, and a plate of saltines, and sugar and milk and part of a lemon.

The meal carts were long gone, but a kindly nurse's aide found me a cup of muscular cherry Jell-O and a packet of saltines.

The hors d'oeuvres, in addition to what looked like Cheez Whiz on saltines, consisted of a bowl of peanuts and a bowl of unpitted green olives in brine.