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bay-salt|ˈbeɪˌsɒlt|
Forms: 5–6 baye-, 7 bai-, base-, 6– bay-salt.
[prob. f. bay n.2
Many explanations have been offered. A derivation from Bayonne dates from 1633; but if salt was really imported into England from that place, it would seem more probable that bay-salt meant ‘salt from the Bay (of Biscay)’; cf. ‘Cape wines,’ etc. The conjecture that it means salt procured from bays (of the sea) indefinitely, seems less probable, for it would have been more obvious, in this case, to say ‘sea-salt.’ There seems to be no good authority for the statement that the Cheshire brine-pools are called bays, nor would this explain why one kind of salt should bear the name of bay-salt more than another.]
Salt, obtained in large crystals by slow evaporation; originally, from sea-water by the sun's heat.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. 201 Item, for di. a bz. of baye salt ij.d. ob. 1559Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 184 In the Salt Garner. Halffe a weye of baye salte. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 207 Bay or Sea salt, dried meerely from salt Sea water by the heat of the Sunne. 1633C. Butler Eng. Gram. Index, Bai Salt, salt of Bayonne in France. 1654Gayton Fest. Notes iii. iii. 80 Train oyle, dead wine, Base-salt. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4486/3 Her Lading, consisting of French Bay Salt. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xix. 456 Great or gross salt was no doubt the larger crystals known now as bay salt. |
