salt down

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salt down

verb salts down · salting down · salted down

dated, transitive To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
transitive To salt (something). County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.

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@misc{salt_down_2026,
  title = {salt down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salt%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}