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salter
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of a cod-pickling crew who washes the fish and salts it.
Quotations
1760
The salter immediately draws it aside, and places it with the skin undermost.
1954
The Gaspe cure salt fish is salted in deep tubs, the salter usually carting both the fish from the splitting table and the salt from the salt bin to these tubs.