rock salt
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2.3
- noun
- /rɑk sɔlt/
:
sal de roca
- Jack walks over to a utility shelf, fishing around until he finds a bag of rock salt. He grabs it, sees it's empty.
- a bag of rock salt
- a handful of rock salt
- sprinkled with rock salt
That would might be something like pouring honey over bare fat and then sprinkling rock salt on it.
- That would might be something like pouring honey over bare fat and then sprinkling rock salt on it.
- Take equal amounts of sulfur, rock salt, ashes, thunderstone and pyrite and pound fine in a black mortar at midday sun.
Examples
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Alternatively, you can store raw cut pieces of ginger with some rock salt in a bottle and have it with your meals.
Blog text (16) -
DOT: I'm driving my dad's blue Chevy, the one with the shovel and fifty pounds of rock salt in the back end—just in case you get stuck.
Fiction book (1998) -
I brought you almost 10 pounds of rock salt.
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For the first time, Oregon transportation workers are planning to use rock salt for snow removal on two routes that get blasted by winter storms.
Blog text (34) -
Rock salt is poured into a truck in Middlesex, Vt., in this 2007 file photo.
Blog text (34) -
In the summer, they were expected to maintain the lawn and the flowers, and in winter, the boy shoveled snow from the walks and spread rock salt on the pavement.
Fiction book (1999) -
My shoes gritted over gravel sprinkled with rock salt to melt the snow on the rec steps.
Fiction book (1993) -
Even the rock salt and gravel spread to hasten their decomposition had been neatly swept up.
Fiction book (1998) -
Two men are working out front, spreading rock salt along the sidewalk to prevent slips and falls.
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In winter, keep a small container of rock salt in the car for de-icing your windshield.
Synonyms
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1.0
White crystals people put on food to make it taste stronger and help it last longer
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1.0
A white seasoning made from a common mineral to add flavor and keep food fresh
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2.3
White crystals that make food taste salty and are used in industry
A natural mineral made of salt that forms in rocks
A white crystal used to season and preserve food
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'coarse crystalline sodium chloride' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'rock' (mineral/solid mass) with 'salt' (sodium chloride): i.e., salt in rock/crystalline form. This straightforward noun+noun compounding pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's sense and typical uses (e.g., de-icing).
Etymology
Rock salt comes from the idea of salt that is like a rock, with big hard crystals found in the ground. That's why rock salt today means coarse salt used for 'de-icing' roads or in cooking.