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salt pan en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.
2. Synonym of saltern: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.
   • In order to provide a market for the coal, four salt pans were constructed a third of a mile south-east of the harbour. […] Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the "Stafford Arms", where Lady Stafford tried unsuccessfully to educate the locals to drink beer instead of a strong whisky. […] The prosperity was short-lived, and in 1828 the salt pans closed and the railway extension was lifted. 1960 January 14, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56:

Forms

Relateds

hardpan

Synonyms

pan (evaporation pond) · saltern · salt flat

Translations (23)

ca salina (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · tr tuzla (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · de Salzpfanne (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · ota طوزله (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · pl salina (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · it salina (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · bg солница (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · cmn 鹽田 /盐田 (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · haw loʻi paʻakai (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · es salar (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · es salinera (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · fi suola-allas (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · nl zoutpan (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · la salinae (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · el αλυκή (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · cmn 鹽池 /盐池 (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · vi diêm điền (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · ml ഉപ്പളം (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · vi ruộng muối (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · nl zoutpanne (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · pt salina (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · my ဆားကျင်း (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated) · hu szalina (A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated)