bay salt

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English

Noun

bay salt (usually uncountable, plural bay salts)

  1. Salt obtained from seawater by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun.
    • 1658, Anonymous, given as "W. M.", The Compleat Cook‎:
      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 ; rinted by J H 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bay salt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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