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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

salt•ern n.

Chemistrya saltworks.
Chemistrya plot of land laid out in pools for the evaporation of seawater to produce salt.

Old English sealtærn saltworks (not recorded in Middle English), equivalent. to sealt salt¹ + ærn building, house bef. 900

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