saltworks

See also: salt works

English

Etymology

From salt +‎ works.

Noun

saltworks (plural saltworks)

1. A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.
2. (figuratively) A job, usually considered boring drudgery.

   I'm off to the saltworks again. Another day, another dollar.

Translations

salt works

• Finnish: suolatehdas
• German: Salzwerk n
• Greek: αλατοποιείο n (alatopoieío)
• Latin: salinae f pl
• Ottoman Turkish: طوزله (tuzla)
• Papiamentu: saliña
• Polish: salina (pl) f
• Turkish: tuzla (tr), memleha (tr) (archaic)

Further reading

• saltworks on Wikipedia.Wikipedia