drysalter

English

Etymology

From dry +‎ salter.

Noun

drysalter (plural drysalters)

1. (now historical) A dealer in chemicals used in the arts (oils, preservatives etc.) as well as, often, preserved foodstuffs including pickles or salted meats.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 82:

     How striking it was to find such sentiments in a man who had risen from nothing to a great fortune, as a dry-salter in London.

Related terms

• drysaltery