SALTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salting mean? 

• SALTING (noun)
  The noun SALTING has 1 sense:

1. the act of adding salt to food

  Familiarity information: SALTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of adding salt to food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("salting" is a kind of...):

seasoning (the act of adding a seasoning to food)

Derivation:

salt (add salt to)

 Context examples 

And north we travelled with it, ravaging and destroying, flinging the naked carcasses to the shark and salting down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)