salt chuck

A form of saltchuck — Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.

Meanings

nounsalt chuck (plural salt chucks)

plural salt chucks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of saltchuck.

    Back on the beach in the far-flung Southeast, Tony Route and I hauled our gear into a USDA Forest Service cabin set in a bench of hemlocks over a remote salt chuck (a sort of brackish lake, connected to the sea by a channel that floods[…])[…].

    2009, Fodor's 2010 Alaska, page 481
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