单词 | saltfat |
释义 | saltfatn. Chiefly Scottish. 1. A salt cellar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > vessel for sprinkling sugar, pepper, or salt > salt-cellar saltfatc1000 salera1400 salt cellar1434 salt1493 drum salt1537 trencher salt1615 scroll salt1630 trencher salt cellar1681 standing salt1826 salt-sprinkler1864 salt-stand1869 salt-shaker1895 α. β. 1679 J. Somerville Memorie Somervilles (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 n. b, salt n.1 7b.].1798 Monthly Mag. 6 ii. 437/2 A salt, or a salt-foot; a salt-cellar.1863 R. Chambers Bk. of 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.c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 126/32 Salinare, uel salinum, sealtfæt. a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 264 Sealtfæt, sticfodder, piperhorn. 1488 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 81 A litill coffre of siluer ouregilt, with a litil saltfat and a couir. 1589 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. IV. 445 Ane coverit saltfatt. 1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. F2 Saltfats outshorne, and glasses chrystalline. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 3 Sept. (1855) 43 Ane gilt silver salt-fat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > place of wich716 saltern858 salt-housec1000 wich-work1298 salt-cotec1425 wich-house1534 walling-house1556 salt-works1566 marsh-work1587 saltfata1647 salt-makinga1647 salt-pan1708 brine-seeth1748 seal1756 rope-house1850 walling shed1894 saltery1899 a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1899) II. ii.298 The owners of thease saltphates have byn aunciently called Burgeses. 3. in saltfat: in the pickling tub; hence, disposed of, out of the way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [phrase] > got rid of in saltfat1820 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 243 The sooner the skin is off, and he is in saultfat, the less like you are to have trouble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1000 |
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