SALTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salted mean? 

• SALTED (adjective)
  The adjective SALTED has 1 sense:

1. (used especially of meats) preserved in salt

  Familiarity information: SALTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used especially of meats) preserved in salt

Synonyms:

brine-cured; salt-cured; salted

Similar:

preserved (prevented from decaying or spoiling and prepared for future use)

 Context examples 

There will be the leg to be salted, you know, which is so very nice, and the loin to be dressed directly in any manner they like.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

What a supper I had of it that night, with all my friends around me; and what a meal it was, with Ben Gunn's salted goat and some delicacies and a bottle of old wine from the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The charges against the said brother John are the following, namely, to wit: First, that on the above-mentioned Feast of the Assumption, small beer having been served to the novices in the proportion of one quart to each four, the said brother John did drain the pot at one draught to the detriment of brother Paul, brother Porphyry and brother Ambrose, who could scarce eat their none-meat of salted stock-fish on account of their exceeding dryness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sausage had only to watch the pot to see that the food was properly cooked, and when it was near dinner-time, he just threw himself into the broth, or rolled in and out among the vegetables three or four times, and there they were, buttered, and salted, and ready to be served.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless—given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself—given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They must not over-salt the leg; and then, if it is not over-salted, and if it is very thoroughly boiled, just as Serle boils ours, and eaten very moderately of, with a boiled turnip, and a little carrot or parsnip, I do not consider it unwholesome.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)