English Dictionary

saltbox

名詞

アメリカ英語 イギリス英語 歴史的 俗語

A box for keeping salt in. / A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.

日本語の意味

塩を保管するための箱。 / かつてバーレスク音楽で打楽器として使用されていた、同様の箱。

He opened the old wooden saltbox to refill it with sea salt.

彼は古い木製の塩入れを開けて、海塩で詰め替えた。

意味（1）

A box for keeping salt in.

意味（2）

A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.

[O]ne who had heard without seeing the application, would have mistaken the sound for that of a salt-box, in the hand of a dext'rous Merry Andrew, belonging to one of the booths at Bartholomew Fair.

意味（3）

(US) a distinctively-shaped wooden-frame house with two storeys at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England

Rather than build new homes, weekenders are renovating existing homes, with saltboxes and capes predominant.

意味（4）

A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.

意味（5）

(UK, slang, historical) The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.

“I think I'd rather languish in the Salt Box at Newgate Prison wearing the Devil's Claws than to be married to that tree,” Kierney said.

saltboxes （ plural ）