"pound salt" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "pounds salt",
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    },
    {
      "form": "pounding salt",
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    {
      "form": "pounded salt",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device."
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pound sand"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278",
          "text": "He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367",
          "text": "I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74",
          "text": "But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.",
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        "Alternative form of pound sand"
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  "word": "pound salt"
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      "form": "pounds salt",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pounding salt",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pounded salt",
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    {
      "form": "pounded salt",
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      "glosses": [
        "To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278",
          "text": "He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367",
          "text": "I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74",
          "text": "But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.",
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