Definition of "salted"

salted

adjective
not comparable
1. To which salt has been added.
  Quotations
  Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*!
  1999 April 6, Pat Kiewicz, rec.gardens.edible‎ (Usenet)
2. (South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
  Quotations
  It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease.
  1901 May 10, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 5, page 131
verb
1. simple past and past participle of salt

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