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sealt-stán

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sealt-stán, es; m.
rock salt
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  • Ðis mæg tó eáhsalfe: genim geoluwne stán (

    ochre

    ) and saltstán,
      Lchdm. i. 374, 14.
a stone formed of salt, a pillar of salt
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  • Heó on sealtstánes sóna wurde anlícnesse ǽfre siððan,

      Cd. Th. 154, 31; Gen. 2564.
  • Lothes wíf wearð áwende tó ánum sealtstáne (

    in statuam salis

    ),
      Gen. 19, 26: Anglia vii., 48, 472.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. salz-stein: Icel. salt-steinn. In English salt-stone somewhat later means a rock in the sea, translating cautes, Wrt. Voc. i. 256, col. 1.]
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