Associations to the word «Saltie»

Wiktionary

SALTIE, noun. (Australia) (informal) A salt-water crocodile (or estuarine crocodile).
SALTIE, noun. (North America) (nautical) An ocean-going ship that enters the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats