salt up

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Verb

salt up (third-person singular simple present salts up, present participle salting up, simple past and past participle salted up)

  1. (transitive) to salt food for seasoning.
  2. (transitive, of an engine, drain, nozzle, etc.) To become encrusted with salt, such as from seawater or from salt-treated roads.
  3. (transitive, of soil) to become saltier, especially to become salty enough to inhibit agriculture.
  4. (transitive, of a road) To treat with salt in preparation for snowfall.