salt-welln.
A salt spring, well, or pit; now, a bored well from which brine is obtained for salt-making.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > [noun] > salt or brine
salt-wellc950
salt-pit1398
nitre pit1601
seathc1682
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Prol. 1 Of saltwælla ðone æne in-dranc.
1042 in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 70 Ðer ofer ða stræt æfter ðam gemære in saltwyllan; of saltwyllan in segchæma gemær.]
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. liii. 1318 Som licour is ypressed and wronge out of fruyt of trees... And som cometh of veynes of þe erþe, as water of salt welles.
a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1899) II. ii. 296 The freashe water with exceedynge fluddes overflowethe the banckes and for a season drownethe the saltwells.
1656 Smith & Webb Vale-Royal i. 19 The Salt-wells, which they call Brine-pits; out of the which, they make yearly a great quantity of fine white Salt.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 30 Salt was..made in Cappadocia from salt wells.
1848 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson tr. F. Knapp Chem. Technol. I. 260 Salt wells..are..frequently found ready formed in nature, wherever a spring, during its course, has come in contact with a bed of rock-salt.
1892 Jackson in Lee Hist. Columbus I. 791 While working in the saltwells of Virginia.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker
weller1440
salt-maker1483
saliner1543
waller1600
salter1606
saltweller1624
wich-waller1670
salt-worker1680
brine-manc1682
brinerc1682
wich-man1688
1624 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 108, lf. 2) Samwell Smyth, saltweller.
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