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saltbox — [sôlt′bäks΄] n. 1. a box for salt, with a sloping lid ☆ 2. a house, as in colonial New England, shaped somewhat like this, having two stories in front and one at the rear, and a gable roof with a much longer slope at the rear * * * salt·box… … Universalium
saltbox — [sôlt′bäks΄] n. 1. a box for salt, with a sloping lid ☆ 2. a house, as in colonial New England, shaped somewhat like this, having two stories in front and one at the rear, and a gable roof with a much longer slope at the rear … English World dictionary
Saltbox — A saltbox is a wooden frame house with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back. A saltbox has just one storey in the back and two stories in the front. The flat front and central chimney are recognizable features, but the asymmetry of… … Wikipedia
Saltbox (album) — Infobox Album Name = Saltbox Type = Album Artist = Red Aunts Released = 1996 Genre = Punk Rock Length = Label = Epitaph Last album = #1 Chicken (1995) This album = Saltbox (1996) Next album = Ghetto Blaster (1998) Saltbox is the fourth full… … Wikipedia
saltbox house — noun see saltbox … Useful english dictionary
saltbox — noun Date: 1876 a frame dwelling with two stories in front and one behind and a roof with a long rear slope … New Collegiate Dictionary
saltbox — m Casa de entramado de madera, caracterнstica de Nueva Inglaterra, que posee una cubierta a dos aguas en la que el faldуn frontal es considerablemente mбs corto que el trasero … Diccionario de Construcción y Arquitectur
saltbox — noun a distinctively shaped wooden frame house with two storeys at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England … Wiktionary
saltbox — n. box for storing salt; American architectural style with two stories in the front of the building and one in the rear (found mainly in New England) … English contemporary dictionary
saltbox — noun N. Amer. a frame house having up to three storeys at the front and one fewer at the back with a steeply pitched roof … English new terms dictionary
