drysalter

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noun

A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.

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Meanings

noundrysalter (plural drysalters)

plural drysalters

  1. historicalA dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.

    How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.

    1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82

Origin

From dry + salter.

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APA

drysalter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drysalter

MLA

“drysalter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drysalter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drysalter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drysalter.

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