bay salt

English

Alternative forms

baysalt, bay-salt

Noun

bay salt (usually uncountable, plural bay salts)

  1. sea salt.
    • 1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.", The Compleat Cook‎[1]:
      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
    • 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:
      bay-salt, which lasted about an eighth part longer than the clear wax
    • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
      A pan may sometimes be slowly evaporated for the express purpose of obtaining bay-salt

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