Preserves (5 letters)

{ Answer }

SALTS

{ Related Clues }

Bath ___
Condiments
Epsom ___
Flavors
Gobs
Sailors
Seasons
Shellbacks
Epsom and the like
Epsom and table
Gives flavor to
Jack-tars
Pequod's crew
Popeye's buddies
Puts (away)
Sea dogs
Seasons, as steak
Smelling things?
Uses a shaker
Veteran sailors
Veteran seamen
De-ices, perhaps
Puts (away), as for safekeeping

{ Tags }

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{ Notes }

The answer SALTS is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.

{ Definition }

SALT as a noun:

1. a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)

2. (salt, table salt, common salt) = white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

3. (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT) = negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

4. (salt, saltiness, salinity) = the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth

SALT as a verb:

1. add salt to

2. sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps"

3. add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes"

4. preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"