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ˈsaltfat Chiefly Sc.
Also β. Sc. corruptly saltfoot.
[OE. sealtfæt: see salt n.1 and fat n.1 Cf. LG. saltfat, Du. zoutvat, MHG. salzfaȥ (G. -fass), ON. saltfat.]
1. A salt-cellar.
αc1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 126/32 Salinare, uel salinum, sealtfæt. a1100Gerefa in Anglia IX. 264 Sealtfæt, sticfodder, piperhorn. 1488Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 81 A litill coffre of siluer ouregilt, with a litil saltfat and a couir. 1589Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. IV. 445 Ane coverit saltfatt. 1599A. Hume Poems (S.T.S.) vii. 44 Saltfats outshorne, and glasses chrystalline. 1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 43 Ane gilt silver salt-fat.
β1679Ld. Somerville Mem. Somervills (1815) II. 394 Sir Walter Stewart of Allontoune..whose predecessors untill this man never came to sitt above the saltfoot when at the Laird of Cambusnethen's table. [Cf. salt-cellar b, salt n.1 7 b]. 1798Monthly Mag. VI. ii. 437/2 A salt, or a salt-foot; a salt-cellar. 1863R. Chambers Bk. Days I. 647/2 One of the customs of great houses, in former times, was to place a large ornamental salt-vat (commonly but erroneously called salt-foot) upon the table.
†2. A salt ‘boilery’. Obs.
a1647Habington Surv. Worcs. in Proc. Worcs. Hist. Soc. II. 298 The owners of these saltphates have byn aunciently called Burgeses.
3. in saltfat: in the pickling tub; hence, disposed of, out of the way.
1820Scott Monast. ix, The sooner the skin is off, and he is in saultfat, the less like you are to have trouble. |