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单词 salt spring
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salt springn.

Etymology: salt adj.1
A flow of salt water or brine out of the earth; a brine-spring, brine-well. Also as attributive.phr.
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brine-spring1594
salt spring1601
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water piteOE
wellOE
pitOE
pulkc1300
draw-wellc1410
draught-wellc1440
winchc1440
brine-well1594
salt spring1601
sump1680
pump well1699
spout-well1710
sump hole1754
pit-well1756
sink1804
bucket-well1813
artesian well1829
shallow well1877
dip-well1894
garland-well1897
village pump1925
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxi. vii. 416 In some parts of Spaine there be salt springs.
a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1899) II. ii. 301 After the deathe of Richard the Saltspringes of Wich fell to decaye.
1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker v. 321 in Fleta Minor i Of Salt-Petre, Vitriol, Allum and Salt Springs.
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 382 The Sea-water and Salt-springs sustain it [sc. alimentary salt]..in a liquid form.
1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 27 The Britons, who had, in several places, plenty of salt-springs.
1834 London & Edinb. Philos. Mag. 4 31 The comparative strength of the salt springs of that country at different depths.
1839 G. Roberts Dict. Geol. Salt Springs, which contain a large quantity of common salt, obtained from them by mere evaporation.
1852 J. Reynolds Pioneer Hist. Illinois 86 They discovered in the present county of Galatin, salt springs.
1853 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 4 9 The twenty-two sections of salt spring lands now unappropriated.
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