"saltchuck" meaning in English

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          "english": "body of water; in its sense",
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          "ref": "2002, Harvey Manning, Penny Manning, Ira Spring, Winter Walks and Hikes: Puget Sound, page 155:",
          "text": "The ultimate consensus was to keep the de-Whited river Green to its Tukwila junction with the Black, the outlet of Lake Washington, then make it Duwamish the rest of the way to the saltchuck.",
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          "text": "Trucks disappeared over precipices, rail cars were shunted into the saltchuck, and donkey engines collapsed from old age. […] However, if it was abandoned anywhere near the saltchuck, it was probably picked up by one of the entrepreneurs […]",
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        "Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean."
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