salting
noun
[ ˈsɔːltɪŋ ]
• an area of coastal land that is regularly covered by the tide.
• "they nest on the drier parts of the saltings"
salt
verb
• season or preserve with salt.
• "after stuffing the fish, I salted and peppered it"
• sprinkle (a road or path) with salt in order to melt snow or ice.
• "local authorities worked to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roads"
• fraudulently make (a mine) appear to be a profitable one by placing rich ore into it.
• "I shall want to see some evidence that there really is a seam—no salting it, no faking"
Origin:
Old English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
