单词 | salt-stone |
释义 | † salt-stonen. Obsolete. 1. Rock-salt; a mass of rock-salt.In early use chiefly in allusions to the fate of Lot's wife. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > salt > [noun] > types of salt salt-stonea1000 saltc1000 white saltOE bay-salt1465 rock salt1562 salt upon salt1580 mineral salt1600 sea salt1601 French salt1617 verge-salt1656 table salt1670 pigeon salt1679 salt-cakec1702 tamarisk salt1712 cat-salt1724 butter salt1749 basket-salt1753 Sunday salt1756 rock1807 stoved salt1808 solar salt1861 fishery-salt1883 gros sel1917 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > halides > [noun] > halite group > sodium chloride salt-stonea1000 saltc1000 sal-gemc1325 salt gem(mea1400 rock salt1562 salt-rock1670 natrum muriaticum1850 gem-salt1852 halite1868 coal salt1877 OE Genesis 2566 Heo on sealtstanes sona wurde anlicnesse. a1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 374 Genim geoluwne stan & salt stan & pipor. a1300 Cursor Mundi 2855 In a salt stan men seis hir stand. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 768/2 Hic cautes, a salt-stone. a1535 J. Fisher Wayes to Perfect Relig. in Eng. Wks. (1876) i. 370 The wife of Loth was turned into a salt stone. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 409 Sal natiuus vel fossilis,..Salt naturall, or that is digged out of the earth: saltstone. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 37 Besides its saltness it [sc. the water] has such a stink, that it equals the salt stone. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 94 The colour of the Saltstone is somewhat gray. 2. A salt-cat for pigeons. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > salt-cat salt-catc1400 salt-stone1425 1425 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 255 i saltstone empt. pro columbario. 1584 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) VI. 575/1 4 saltstones for the dovecot @ 1/9. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxii. 165 Pigeons delight in salt stones . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1000 |
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