drysaltery
English
Noun
drysaltery (plural drysalteries)
- The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- 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!
- 1842 Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Child's Story", in Bells and Pomegranates:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drysaltery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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