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ˈsalt-pit
A pit where salt is obtained.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xciv. (Bodl. MS.), [It] is somtyme idrawe oute of salte pittes and isode. 1535Coverdale Zeph. ii. 9 Moab shalbe as Sodome, and Ammon as Gomorra: euen drie thorne hedges, salt pittes and a perpetuall wyldernes. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 338 b, The daye before he died, he released the customes which he had imposed upon Salt pits. 1625Purchas Pilgrims iii. i. 3 Out of those Salt-pits Baatu and Sartach haue great Reuenues. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Salt-pits, reservoirs on a coast, to contain sea-water for the purposes of making salt. 1889Helps Study Bible xlii. 125 A ridge of salt-rock runs into that sea [i.e. the Dead Sea], and there are salt-pits, and a plain of salt. |