English Etymology From salt + -ery, or in sense 3, salter + -y. Noun saltery (plural salteries) A saltworks. A place for fish salting. The field or profession of a salter. (Compare drysaltery) saltery wares Anagrams Ratleys, Straley, lastery, lyrates, raylets, stearylWikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.