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Saltfat(t, n. Also: saltfautt, -falt, -faitt, -wat; saltfit, -foot(t; satfat; salfat, selfatt; (satfilt, saltflat). [OE sealtfæt, ON saltfat; Salt n.¹ and Fat n.¹] A table vessel for holding salt, a salt-cellar or salt-dish.(1) 1421 Douglas Chart. 57.
Twa saltfattis of syluer 1478 Acta Aud. 67/1.
ij salsaris [ed. salsatis] ij saltfattis 1480 Crawford Mun. Invent. II 18 (5 Oct.). 1484 Acta Conc. I 108*/2.
A saltfat with a couer of siluer 1488 Treas. Acc. I 81.
A litil saltfat and a couir 1501 Ib. II 44.
Ane saltfat of silvir overgilt … weyand vij unce 1506–7 Ib. III 364.
Ane salt fat of the Lady, of gold, giffin be the quene on New Ȝeir day 1508 Ib. IV 137.
For solding of Lioun of the kingis salt fat 1524–5 Wigtownshire Chart. 63.
iv tyn salsaris, ii tyn saltfattis 1536 Treas. Acc. VI 456.
Gevin for ane cais to ane salt fatt 1563 Peebles B. Rec. I 289.
Ane litill bikker callit ane salt fat with ane fute of esche 1570 Canongate Ct. Bk. 189.
Ane dische and saltfatt of puder to iij s. 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 103.
[At the prince‘s baptism] the salt fatt [was carried in procession] be the erle of Eglintoun the cude be the lord Sympill the basing and the lawar [etc.] 1589 Reg. Privy C. IV 445.
Ane coverit saltfatt of the fairest and maist bellisant amang thame 1611 Edinb. Test. XLVI 274.
Ane … saltfat of Parreis wark 1632 Ib. LVI 23b.
Four acomie saltfattis 1640 Glenurquhy Heirlooms in Innes Sketches 508.
Ane vther silver salt fatt that standis vpone thrie round knops that hes tuo divisiounes 1640 Kirkcudbr. Min. Bk. 43. 1657 Montgomery Mem. II 320.
Ane laigh gilt salt fatt 1674 Ib. 337.
Ane heigh gilt saltfatt 1678 Brechin Test. VII 24b.
Ane leam salt fatt(b) 1582 Grant Chart. 156.
Ane saltfaitt(c) 1627 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 529.
Ane saltfautt divydit in two pairts(d) 1644 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi 56.
My siluir saltfit(e) 1648 Linlithgow Palace 332.
Ane siluer salt foot 1651 Buccleuch Mun. 289.
Thrie [? silver] saltfootts 1669 Edinb. Test. LXXIII 292b.
Ane paire of hespers and ane saltfoot 1677 Maxtones 42.
And six pleats ane saltfoot(f) 1553 Wauchopes 54.
Ane saltflat of siluer, of sixteine vnces; ane vther saltflat of syluer of thre vnces 16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 93.
Ane saltfalt [pr. saltsalt] of marble whyte which was made of a stone found in Strathbogy in a quarry(g) 1565 Hist. Carnegies 51.
Ane saltwat or sic other thynge as his wyf had ado with(h) 1627 Brechin Test. IV 291.
Four satfatis of tin … ane sattfatt(i) 1483 Acta Aud. *119/2.
A siluer salfat 1567 Kirkcaldy B. Rec. 314.
Ane trene salfat 1606 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 2.
Ane maskfatt ane selfatt of tynn ane gardene(2) 1540–1 Treas. Acc. VII 427.
To be ane chalice and ane dowbill saltfatt … xxvij unces silver 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX 45.
Nyne doubill beld saltfattis at xx s. the pece

b. A division of a plate, designed to hold salt: cf. Salt n. 2 b. 1531 Treas. Acc. V 462.
Twa trunscheouris squair, with ane salt falt in ane newk of the samyn, all ourgilt 1543 Inv. Wardrobe 111.
Twa nukit trunscheoris of silver owrgilt, with saltfattis in the nukis of thame

c. Above the saltfoot, above the salt. 1679 J. Somerville Mem. II 394.
A fewar of the earle of Tweddell's … whose predecessors untill this man never came to sitt above the saltfoot when at the laird of Cambusnethen's table

d. Attrib. with heid (Hede n.¹ 5), mould. 1631 Edinb. Test. LV 43.
Four saltfatheidis 1645 Ib. LXI 184b (see Salsar n. (2)).
Ane satfilt mould