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单词 saltfat
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saltfatn.

Forms: Also β. Scottish corruptly saltfoot.
Etymology: Old English sealtfæt : see salt n.1 and fat n.1 Compare Low German saltfat, Dutch zoutvat, Middle High German salzfaȥ (German -fass), Old Norse saltfat.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsaltfat.
Chiefly Scottish.
1. A salt cellar.
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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.
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.
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.
2. A salt ‘boilery’. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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