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salting

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verb

  1. To add salt to.“to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter”
  2. To deposit salt as a saline solution.“The brine begins to salt.”
  3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.

noun

  1. The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road
  2. A salt marsh
  3. The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
  4. The celebration of the Eton montem.

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