bay salt

noun

sea salt.

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Meanings

nounbay salt (usually uncountable, plural bay salts)

plural bay salts

  1. uncountableusuallysea salt.

    bay-salt, which lasted about an eighth part longer than the clear wax

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
    2 more examples

    Take a Male Pike, rub his skin off whil'st he lives, with bay salt, having well cleared the outside, lay him in a large Dish or Tray

    1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.", The Compleat Cook

    A pan may sometimes be slowly evaporated for the express purpose of obtaining bay-salt

    1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines
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