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Saltbox

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A box for keeping salt in.
  2. 2
    a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.

    "[O]ne who had heard without seeing the application, would have mistaken the sound for that of a salt-box, in the hand of a dext'rous Merry Andrew, belonging to one of the booths at Bartholomew Fair."

  4. 4
    A distinctively shaped wooden-frame house with two stories at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England. US

    "Rather than build new homes, weekenders are renovating existing homes, with saltboxes and capes predominant."

  5. 5
    A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.
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  1. 6
    The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death. UK, historical, slang

    "“I think I'd rather languish in the Salt Box at Newgate Prison wearing the Devil's Claws than to be married to that tree,” Kierney said."

Etymology

From salt + box.

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