salted

Etymology

adj

1. To which salt has been added.
   salted peanuts
   Dave, if you are eating enough salted nuts for the salt in the nuts to make a difference in the compost pile, you would be better off worrying about what all those nuts are doing to *you* because that would be a *whole lotta nuts*! 04/06/1999, Pat Kiewicz, rec.gardens.edible (Usenet)
2. (South Africa, archaic) Of an animal, vaccinated against or having recovered from a disease.
   It is possible, again, that cases which have recovered from the disease (so-called salted animals), may assume the role of host, and furnish infective material for the propogation of the disease. May 10, 1901, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 131

verb

1. simple past and past participle of salt