"salt down" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: salts down [present, singular, third-person], salting down [participle, present], salted down [participle, past], salted down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} salt down (third-person singular simple present salts down, present participle salting down, simple past and past participle salted down)
  1. (transitive, dated) to salt something to slow decomposition, such as to prepare food, treat wood or preserve a corpse. Tags: dated, transitive
    Sense id: en-salt_down-en-verb-vXlc8QTs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down)

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