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Word entry · 4 letters

salt

Best crossword clue

"Chips seasoning"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /sɒlt/Part of speech verb, adjective, nounSorted alstStarts with SEnds with T8 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. preserve with salt

Word origin

From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

Used in a sentence

  • “Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt”
  • “Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […]”
    Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]
  • “Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer8 curated clues

01“Chips seasoning”4 letters
02“Pretzel topping”4 letters
03“Seasoning beside pepper”4 letters
04“Seasoning from the sea”4 letters
05“Shaker contents”4 letters
06“White seasoning crystals”4 letters
07“White table seasoning”4 letters
08“Table seasoning”4 letters

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