DCHP-3

salt-burnt

Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

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Quotations

1832
If too much salt have been used, the fibres break in drying, and the [cod] fish easily falls to pieces. In this state, it is called salt-burnt, and is unfit for market.