saltland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltlands
Etymology: From salt + land.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the saltlands. Wolves came out by night sometimes and carried off children straying late; sometimes a new - made grave was found open and empty in the morning, and people breathed of ghouls […] late travelers had heard voices[…]
ref: 1978, Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski, Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy:
text: […] in the saltland? Does the fig tree cease to stand on top of Walmal? The diviner was telling them where the Borana had camped. The Arsi returned again to the Borana territory. While the Arsi were on their way, the Borana diviner[…]
ref: 2002, Sahlu Kidane, Paul Trevor William Baxter, Borana Folktales: A Contextual Study:
text: […] In the saltlands, this reserve is smaller but is com- pensated by inorganic forms of phosphorous. Singh and Nijhawan (1943) were the first to report high levels of extractable phosphorous in alkali soils of the Indo - Gangetic[…]
ref: 2005, N. T. Singh, Irrigation and Soil Salinity in the Indian Subcontinent: Past and Present, Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, page 294:
text: […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.
ref: 2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
text: […] The saltland heath sodden and yellowed by the winter was sweating in the sun. It smelled like rotten fruit, like beer, like cow's breath. The earth was passing wind; it belched at every footfall; its boil had burst; it was[…]
ref: 2011 January 21, Jim Crace, The Gift of Stones, Anchor Canada, →ISBN, page 88:
text: […] in the saltlands for a long time. Our supplies ran low - hadn't been for him ” -nodding across the table- " we'd both have died. Don't know how we did get out finally - but we're out, understand? Out! Nothing could hire us to go[…]
ref: 2015 September 22, C.L. Moore, Northwest Smith, Diversion Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
text: […] the saltland for its dwelling place? It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver. It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing. (Job 39 : 5-8) Yahweh assigns[…]
ref: 2016 April 28, Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:
text: […] in the saltlands of Worcestershire. Raking was potentially dangerous and probably the most unpleasant task in the works, because it had to be performed at high speed over the boiling brine. The worker stood at the side of an unguarded[…]
ref: 2016 October 4, Raphael Samuel, Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977), Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Nick Montfort. the ear- ring following the sack, the shipworm, the saltland delighting, the rootwork alighting, the cloudless horse, the slipfield dancing, the riverfire dreaming, the birdsack exceeding the word, the firefield, and the[…]
ref: 2017 September 15, Nick Montfort, The Truelist, Counterpath, →ISBN, page 75:
text: […] the saltland pasture during the most feed-limited time of year – in southern Australia, this is often in summer and autumn when senesced crops and annual pastures provide the most of the feedbase (O'Connell et al. 2006). 2. Establish[…]
ref: 2021 June 24, Katarzyna Negacz, Pier Vellinga, Edward Barrett-Lennard, Redouane Choukr-Allah, Theo Elzenga, Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Any land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.