drysaltery

English

Noun

drysaltery (plural drysalteries)

1. The goods traded by a drysalter.
2. The business of a drysalter.
   • 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin; A Child's Story”, in Bells and Pomegranates:

     Oh rats, rejoice! / The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!

References

• “drysaltery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.