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salt-chuck [< salt + Chinook Jargon chuck water] B.C., Informal

• n. the ocean, including all salt-water inlets, canals, and bays affected by tidewater.

  See also: chuck ((1)) (def. 2b)  

  • c1857  (1927)  "Hist . . . Before sun up you white men go . . . to salt-chuck (ocean). Indian kill all white men in canyon."
  • 1874  A thick heavy mist hung over the valley, completely hiding the Cascade range which we had now to enter and pass through before reaching the "salt-chuck."
  • 1938  And unless you are camped near a log dump--which means where a logging company is dumping logs into the salt chuck--you have quite a time gathering enough.
  • 1966  They . . . felled the big ones [trees], rolled them up to a thousand feet to the salt chuck and herded them into booms from leaky boats.