wetsaltert (wet salter), ["ter)

A salter who prepares or deals in wet provisions. See wet pro provisions. visions, under wet1. Compare dry - salter. The Parade. smelt as strong about Breakfast Times Tom Brown, Works (ed. 1708), III. 86. wet-shod (wet's hod), a. [ as a Wet Salter's Shop at Midsummer. There [in the battle) men were wetschoede Alle of Brayn & of blode. Arthur (ed. Furnivall), 1. 469. Unle to shame his Court Flatterers who would not else be convinc't, Canute needed not to have gone wet - shod home. Milton, Hist. Eng., vi. So he went over at last, not much aboue wet -shod. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii.