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"[A]n old salt dont like to keep under hatches, while powder is burning on deck."
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old salt — noun count OLD FASHIONED an old sailor with a lot of experience … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
old salt — n old fashioned a ↑sailor who has had a lot of experience of sailing … Dictionary of contemporary English
old salt — noun a man who serves as a sailor • Syn: ↑mariner, ↑seaman, ↑tar, ↑Jack tar, ↑Jack, ↑seafarer, ↑gob, ↑sea dog • Derivationally related forms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
old salt — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms old salt : singular old salt plural old salts old fashioned an old sailor with a lot of experience … English dictionary
Old salt — Quartermaster Dick Libby, USN, an Old Salt: Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty never sober on liberty. [1] Portrait painted circa 1834 by Charles O. Cole An old salt in the English speaking naval services is often a raconteur, or… … Wikipedia
Old Salt House — (Châteaulin,Франция) Категория отеля: Адрес: 4 Quai Amiral Douguet, 29150 Châteaulin … Каталог отелей
Old Salt Route — The Old Salt Route was a medieval trade route in northern Germany, one of the ancient network of salt roads which were used primarily for the transport of salt and other staples. In Germany it was referred to as Alte Salzstraße. Salt was very… … Wikipedia
old salt — 1) salt used in pickling fish that has been stored for three years 2) and elderly or experienced sailor or fisherman … Dictionary of ichthyology
old salt — informal an experienced sailor. → salt … English new terms dictionary
old salt — noun (C) old fashioned a sailor who has had a lot of experience of sailing … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
