saltern noun. ['sɔ:ltǝn, 'sɒ-] Now chiefly Hist. OE.
[from SALT noun¹ + Old English ærn building, place (cf. BARN noun¹ & verb).]
A building in which salt is obtained by boiling or evaporation; a salt-works. Also, an area of land laid out with pools in which seawater is allowed to evaporate.

► Between OE and L17 recorded chiefly in place-names.

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