salting

noun

salt·​ing ˈsȯl-tiŋ 

chiefly British

: land flooded regularly by tides

—usually used in plural

Examples of salting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

His unfussy approach to food shines through in this easy, no-fry eggplant parm that avoids time-consuming steps such as salting and breading. —Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024

The bluefin was sacrificed to Poseidon, and worshipped in a more domestic fashion: it was preserved by salting, and its guts were fermented into a nutritionally and financially valuable sauce. —Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

But as much as half of salting happens on private property, like private roads, driveways, sidewalks and parking lots. —Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2022

The team’s research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway’s Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting. —Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019

By 1888, enrollment had dipped notably at the West 17th Street school while at least a salting of white students had joined the Black ones. —John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022

Other famous people followed his lead, buying ranches all over the West: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, David Letterman, Tom Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Kanye West, John Mayer, the late Peter Fonda, plus a heavy salting of the Forbes 400. —Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022

Season with a teeny bit of salt at the beginning, and do the heavy-duty salting at the finish. —Marisa Petrarca, SELF, 3 Dec. 2016

The Clintons’ classes are intended to be inspirational and aspirational, with a salting of common sense. —Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined above