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salting

/ ˈsɔːltɪŋ /

noun

  1. often plural an area of low ground regularly inundated with salt water; often taken to include its halophyte vegetation; a salt marsh


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No testimony suggested he was salting money into Wall Street.

It is universally accepted foodie-purist knowledge that simply slicing and lightly salting a tomato is the way to go.

He now owned two large warehouses in the town and several salting-houses in the north.

The husband had fallen by an anonymous bullet while salting his cattle on the mountain in an early year of the war.

By this precaution, the after-salting on the surface is sure to penetrate deep enough to cure effectually the less salted parts.

Here's my daughter run away to be married with the coolest, freshest, limber-tongued young codfish that ever escaped salting.

However, in 1908, the Uruguayan beef-salting factories slaughtered three times as many cattle as the Argentine.

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