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n.
a quantity of fish salted and piled in layers.
See: bulk
Quotations
1861
The cod is now placed in what is called salt-bulk, where it may remain any period of time; for, so long as fish is being caught in the bay, so long will the "drying" and "washing"--which constitute the final process--be delayed.
1964
This well-known method [pickling] of producing the most palatable codfish, was perhaps then a new departure, to get a better price from the traditional saltbulk style.