Meaning of salt down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To salt (something) to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse.
   dated, transitive
2. To salt (something).
   transitive

Examples

“County highway crews manned their trucks to salt down the roads, but the snowfall was predited to continue until tonight.”

“He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight.”

“I sat there and watched as he carefully salted down his beer glass from the shaker on the table. “To eliminate intestinal drag,” he said, with a wry grin, just the same as he’d said every other time I’d seen him salt his draft ale.”

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