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Salter may refer to: * Salter (surname) *Salter (trap) *Salter Brecknell, a manufacturer of light commercial weighing scales, part of Avery Weigh-Tronix *Salter Housewares, a manufacturer of consumer weighing scales * Salters Steamers, a boating company on the River Thames, England *Worshipful Company of Salters, a Livery Company of the City of London * Salter, someone who trades in salt See also *Psalter A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were ..., a Book of Psalms * Drysalter, a dealer in chemical products {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salter (surname)
Salter is a Medieval English occupational surname, meaning someone who trades in salt. Its other meaning is connected to psalter. An English Salter family came to Portugal in the person of Edward then Duarte Salter, born in 1627, nobleman, son of John Salter, paternal grandson of Nicholas Salter, great-grandson of James Salter and great-great-grandson of Thomas Salter, also noblemen. It brings the following arms: argent, a floured cross sable, accompanied of four mullets sable, one in chief, one in point and one in each flank; crest: an owl proper, armed or. Others use: gules, ten billets or, four, three, two and one. In England they do not use the first of the described arms, which are the known ones in Portugal. It is said that the second arms correspond to a Chart passed by the England King of Arms, brought by Edward then Duarte Salter."Armorial Lusitano", Afonso Eduardo Martins Zúquete, Editorial Enciclopédia, 3rd Edition, Lisbon, 1987, pp. 487-8 Notable people with this nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salter (trap)
A salter is a structure that enabled deer to leap into an enclosed area but prevented them from leaving. From the Latin ''saltare'', "to jump." Now the word provides understanding in the study of toponymic surnames, and toponymy, or the study of place names. Salters were used to populate private deer parks. "Salter" may be preferred over "deer-leap", which is ambiguous and does not convey its "one-way" nature. It is a shortening of the term ''saltatorium''. Historically, salters were prized and highly regulated as gifts from the monarchy. For example, in 1358, Edward III granted "for the king's special affection for Mary de Sancto Paulo, Countess of Pembroke, that for her life she shall have two deer-leaps in her park Fodryngeye." Construction A salter consists of a short ditch, with one side higher than the other. The high side is topped by a picket-style fence or palisade, while the low side is planted to attract deer. Natural features were sometimes used, such as rock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avery Weigh-Tronix
Avery Weigh-Tronix is a subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works specialising in industrial weighing machines. Its headquarters stands on the site of the Soho Foundry in Smethwick, West Midlands, England. The company additionally has a United States–based manufacturing and retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is the sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholes ... manufacturing plant. The company is one of the largest suppliers of weighing devices. The company is registered as Avery Weigh-Tronix, Ltd. in the UK and Avery Weigh-Tronix, LLC in the US. History The company was formed in June 2000 when the U.S.-based weighing company Weigh-Tronix acquired the Avery Berkel group of companies. Avery Berkel was the result of the merger between GEC Avery (formally W & T Avery) and Berkel. Avery Weigh-Tronix was the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salter Housewares
Salter is a British housewares brand. Established in 1760, Salter has been developing precision products for over 260 years. Salter develops and sells products that span a wide range of core product categories, including scales, electricals, cookware and countertop. It is a market leader in kitchen and bathroom scales and one of the UK’s oldest consumer brands. It was acquired by Manchester-based consumer goods giant Ultimate Products in 2021, after they had previously licensed the brand for cookware and kitchen electrical goods since 2011. History The firm began life in the late 1760s in the village of Bilston, England when Richard Salter, a spring maker, began making the first spring scales in Britain. He called these scales "pocket steelyards", though they work on a different principle from steelyard balances. By 1825 his nephew George had taken over the company, which became known as George Salter & Co. George later established a manufacturing site in the town of Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salters Steamers
Salters Steamers, formerly known as Salter Bros, is a family boating firm on the River Thames, founded in Oxford in 1858. Prior to that the family operated a riverside tavern in Wandsworth, having moved there around 1836. The company runs passenger services in summer along the length of the River Thames between Oxford and Staines. They also hire boats from Oxford (at Folly Bridge), Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. In Oxford in particular, punts are available. History The firm was established when John and Stephen Salter took over Isaac King's boat building firm based at Folly Bridge in Oxford. They were the country's leading racing-boat-builder in the 1860s (distributing craft around the world) and they built many of the beautiful Oxford University barges at Christ Church Meadow, used over many years as a base for the various colleges for the sport of rowing. These have now all been replaced by boat houses. They became one of the largest inland boat-letters in the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worshipful Company Of Salters
The Worshipful Company of Salters is one of the Livery Company, Great Twelve City Livery Companies, ranking 9th in order of precedence. An ancient guild, merchant guild associated with the salt trade, the Salters' Company originated in London as the Guild of Body of Christ, Corpus Christi. History and functions The Salters' Company was first granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation (business), Incorporation in 1394, with further charters authorising the Company to set standards regulating salt industry products from the City of London. The Style (manner of address), formal name under which it is incorporated is ''The Master, Wardens and Commonality of the Art or Mystery of the Salters of London''. The Company was originally responsible for the regulation of salt merchants, but began losing control over the trade as the population of London increased and spread outwards from City of London, the City after the Industrial Revolution. Until the 19th century, the main use for sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salter (occupation)
Drysalters were dealers in a range of chemical products, including glue, varnish, dye and colourings. They might supply salt or chemicals for preserving food and sometimes also sold pickles, dried meat or related items. The name ''drysalter'' or ''dry-salter'' was in use in the United Kingdom by the early 18th century when some drysalters concentrated on ingredients for producing dyes, and it was still current in the first part of the 20th century. Background Drysaltery is closely linked to the occupation of ''salter'' which in the Middle Ages simply meant someone who traded in salt. By the end of the 14th century there was a guild of salters in London. Later ''salter'' was also used to refer to people employed in a salt works, or in salting fish or meat, as well as to drysalters. In 1726, Daniel Defoe described a tradesman involved in the "buying of cochineal The cochineal ( , ; ''Dactylopius coccus'') is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Trade
A salt road (also known as a salt route, salt way, saltway, or salt trading route) refers to any of the prehistoric and historical trade routes by which essential salt was transported to regions that lacked it. From the Bronze Age (in the 2nd millennium BC) fixed transhumance routes appeared, like the Ligurian ''drailles'' that linked the maritime Liguria with the ''alpages'', long before any purposely-constructed roadways formed the overland routes by which salt-rich provinces supplied salt-starved ones. Roads The '' Via Salaria'', an ancient Roman road in Italy, eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria in the Aurelian Walls) to ''Castrum Truentinum'' ( Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast - a distance of . A modern road by this name, part of the SS4 highway, runs from Rome to Osteria Nuova in Orvieto. The Old Salt Route, about , was a medieval route in northern Germany, linking Lüneburg (in Lower Saxony) with the port of Lübeck (in Schleswig-Holstein), which requi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psalter
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints. Until the emergence of the book of hours in the Late Middle Ages, psalters were the books most widely owned by wealthy lay persons. They were commonly used for learning to read. Many psalters were richly illuminated, and they include some of the most spectacular surviving examples of medieval book art. The English term (Old English , ) derives from Church Latin. The source term is , which is simply the name of the Book of Psalms (in secular Latin, it is the term for a stringed instrument, from ''psalterion''). The Book of Psalms contains the bulk of the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church. The other books associated with it were the Lectionary, the Antiphonary, and Responsoriale, and the Hymnary. In Late Modern English, ''psalter'' has mostly ceased to refer to the Book of Psalms (as the text of a book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
