drysaltery
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
drysaltery (plural drysalteries)
- The goods traded by a drysalter.
- The business of a drysalter.
- 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Child's Story”, in Bells and Pomegranates:
- Oh rats, rejoice! / The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!
References[edit]
- “drysaltery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.