salting vbl n Cp OED ~ 4 ~ house (1682).
Attrib salting cask: barrel-shaped wooden container for cured fish.
[1777] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 237 I delivered all the empty casks, and then took on board some salting casks, and twenty-one coils of cordage.
salting house: area of fishing premises in which cod-fish are processed for drying; SALT-HOUSE.
1818 CHAPPELL 127 Each salting-house is provided with one or more tables, around which are placed wooden chairs and leathern aprons, for the cut-throats, headers, and splitters.
salting scoop: wooden implement for spreading salt on split cod-fish (P 243-61); cp SALT SHOVEL.
salting stage: see salting store; STAGE.
1966 FARIS 224 From here [the cod are] wheeled up a narrow track on the long wharf to a more substantial building ... the 'salting stage' where the fish are spread in rows and salted.
salting store: see salting house; SALT STORE.
P 102-60 The salting store [is] where the salters laid [the fish] flat all face up and covered them, [using] a salt shovel which was home-made of wood.
