Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

salt down

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English

Syllables: salt -down
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.

Dated; Transitive verb

verb

To salt (something).

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight."
"He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight."
"I sat there and watched as he carefully salted down his beer glass from the shaker on the table. “To eliminate intestinal drag,” he said, with a wry grin, just the same as he’d said every other time I’d seen him salt his draft ale."

Usage

Inflected Forms

salts down (present, singular) salting down (participle, present) salted down (participle, past) salted down (past)

Questions

What does salt down mean?: To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.

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