salt lake
[salt a.1]
A saline lake, usu. one with no outlet to the sea so that salts brought in by rivers accumulate in it; esp. one which is not particularly alkaline (cf. bitter lake s.v. bitter a. 1 c).
| 1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. 289 We set up our tents near a lake of brackish water, called Solonoy-Osera, or the salt lake. Ibid. 326 The 22d, we quitted the salt lake. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 343/2 A great number of smaller and larger salt lakes. 1882 [see bitter a. 1 c]. 1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist i. 34 A salt-lake shrimp could tolerate an even higher concentrate of brine. 1970 [see exogenetic a. 2 b]. |