SALTERN


Meaning of SALTERN in English

/sawl"teuhrn/ , n.

1. a saltworks.

2. a plot of land laid out in pools for the evaporation of seawater to produce salt.

[ bef. 900; OE sealtaern saltworks (not recorded in ME), equiv. to sealt SALT 1 + aern building, house ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .