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Definition of Salt away

1. Verb. Keep or lay aside for future use. "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

Definition of Salt away

1. Verb. To save or preserve (e.g. money) for future use (as if food, preserved in salt) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salt Away

Literary usage of Salt away

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"Federal legislation actually employed to keep this salt away IA hostile and repulsive tax of twenty cents imposed upon every eight cents' worth of this ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"... of the salt away with it by direct combination it also robs us indirectly, inasmuch as we cannot wash it so as to take away all the acetate of soda, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1866)
"As you have thought proper to take the salt away after you were informed it was my property, you will please call and pay for the same without delay, ..."

4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1866)
"As you have thought proper to take the salt away after you were informed it was my property, you will please call and pay for the same without delay, ..."

5. The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates: Embracing a Long Life on Shipboard by Joseph Bates (1868)
"Said I, " What is the matter, men ? are you not able to shovel the salt away as fast as these two men shovel it in?" They replied they were not. ..."

6. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1902)
"Most, or in fact all hide salters, never throw any old salt away, but use it over again and again by mixing fresh, clean salt in with it. ..."

7. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1859)
"Federal legislation actually employed to keep this salt away IA hostile and repulsive tax of twenty cents imposed upon every eight cents' worth of this ..."

8. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1851)
"... of the salt away with it by direct combination it also robs us indirectly, inasmuch as we cannot wash it so as to take away all the acetate of soda, ..."

9. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1866)
"As you have thought proper to take the salt away after you were informed it was my property, you will please call and pay for the same without delay, ..."

10. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1866)
"As you have thought proper to take the salt away after you were informed it was my property, you will please call and pay for the same without delay, ..."

11. The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates: Embracing a Long Life on Shipboard by Joseph Bates (1868)
"Said I, " What is the matter, men ? are you not able to shovel the salt away as fast as these two men shovel it in?" They replied they were not. ..."

12. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1902)
"Most, or in fact all hide salters, never throw any old salt away, but use it over again and again by mixing fresh, clean salt in with it. ..."

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