Salts

A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.

A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.

A sailor (also old salt).

To add salt to.

"to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt the city streets in the winter"

To deposit salt as a saline solution.

"The brine begins to salt."

To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.

To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.