saltee (salte)

[ Italian coin: see sou.] A penny. [Slang.] It had rained kicks all day in lieu of saltees . C. Reade , Cloister and Hearth, lv. salter (sålter), n. [ salter , salt are , ere , a salter; as salt + eter, sal sealtere , a salt makes, sells, or deals in salt. -er1.] 1. One who IMG:content-0013.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A drysalter. The incorporated salters, or drysalters, of London form one of the city livery companies. A few yards off, on the other side of Cannon Street, in St. Swith in's Lane, is the spacious but not very interesting hall of the salters. The Century, XXXVII. 16. 3. One who salts meat or fish. The salter in a fishing-ve el receives the fish from the splitter, strews salt on them, and stows them away in compact layers with the skin down. 4. A trout about leaving salt water to ascend a stream. [New Eng.]