A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.

Salty; salted. / Saline. / Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use. / (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.

(transitive) To add salt to. / (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution. / (nautical, of a ship) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.

(obsolete) A bounding; a leaping; a prance.

To which salt has been added. / (South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.

simple past tense and past participle of salt

plural of salt

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of salt

(politics) Initialism of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

A surname from Yiddish.