saltie (salt i)

The salt-water fluke or dab, Limanda plates so ides. - Bastard saltie. See bastard. saltier1, saltire (sal'ter), n. [OF. saultoir, F. sautoir, St. Andrew's cro , orig. a stirrup (the cro being appar. so named from the position of the side-pieces of a stirrup, formerly made a triangle resembling the Gr. delta, A), in saltier. Upon his surcoat valiant Nevil bore A silver saltire upon martial red. Saltier. There is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair, they call themselves Saltiers , and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols. Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 334. saltier let (sal'ter-let), n. [ saltier1 + -let .] A small saltier. See saltier couped and cro ed, under saltier i .