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Definition of Saltern
1. n. A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
Definition of Saltern
1. Noun. (archaeology) An area used for saltmaking, especially in the East Anglian fenlands. ¹
2. Noun. A modern saltworks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Saltern
1. a place where salt is produced [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saltern
Literary usage of Saltern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1844)
"551. d) The other notion to which eerie, saltern refer, is often not expressed.
552. ... Ibi tribuni militum, non prse- munito vallo, non deorum saltern, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Notice of Fossils found in a bed. of Devonian Rocks at saltern Cove, in Torbay,
and in a quarry of the Old Red Sandstone, near Caerleon, in Monmouthshire. ..."
3. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1844)
"551. d) The other notion to which eerie, saltern refer, is often not expressed.
552. ... Ibi tribuni militum, non prse- munito vallo, non deorum saltern, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1879)
"Notice of Fossils found in a bed. of Devonian Rocks at saltern Cove, in Torbay,
and in a quarry of the Old Red Sandstone, near Caerleon, in Monmouthshire. ..."
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