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salt pile Nfld, Obs. 
1 n. a quantity of fish salted and piled in layers.
See also: bulk
- 1784 In the salt pile, the fish are spread one upon a other, with a layer of salt between. Thus they remain till they have taken salt; and then are carried, and the salt is washed from them by throwing them off from shore in a kind of float called a Pound.
2 a pile of green seal hides salted to keep them from deteriorating.
- 1900 And with them I went to the rich beaches of Copper Island, where our salt-piles became high with skins.
- 1784 In the salt pile, the fish are spread one upon a other, with a layer of salt between. Thus they remain till they have taken salt; and then are carried, and the salt is washed from them by throwing them off from shore in a kind of float called a Pound.