| 单词 | saltern |
| 释义 | saltern|ˈsɒltən, -ɔː-|
[OE. sealtærn: see salt n.1 and earn n.]
A building in which salt is made by boiling or evaporation; a salt-works; also, a plot of land, laid out in pools and walks, into which the sea-water is admitted and allowed to evaporate naturally.
858in Birch Cartul. Sax. II. 101 Butan ðem sealtern et fefresham & butan ðem þioda ðe to ðem sealtern limpð. 1681Worlidge Syst. Agric. 262 The refuse salt Earth that at the Salternes is cast out and of no value. 1682J. Collins Salt & Fishery 32 A Boyling-House is called a Saltern. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 38 Ye greatest trade is by their Salterns. Ye sea water they draw into Trenches. 1748Brownrigg Art of Making Salt 50 At some convenient place near the sea shore is erected the saltern. This is a long, low building, consisting of two parts; one of which is called the fore-house, and the other the pan-house or boiling-house. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery II. 88 The coast becoming flat between the place and Lymington, is commodiously formed into salterns. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 234 A considerable precipitate of muriate of soda has taken place in these natural salterns. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 338/2 When salt was much dearer than it is now, the sea-water used to be concentrated in salterns. |
英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容11：
相关热词搜索：saltern英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语
字词 接角性结核菌素 释义 【医】 contagious tyberculin 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译......
字词 接耳管 释义 【医】 ear piece 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部......
单词 birlie 释义 Seebirley 英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用......
单词 birley 释义 birlie, birley Sc.A corrupted form of byrlaw, used in comb. birley-court,......
字词 接装板 释义 【机】 adapter plate 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖了......
字词 接触负荷 释义 【电】 contact load 汉译英翻译词典收录405719条汉英翻译词条，基本涵盖......