Cryptic crossword clue
Salt perhaps at home breaking into shanty 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SEASONING

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What does SEASONING mean?

SEASONING noun
  1. Something used to add taste or flavour to food, such as salt and pepper or other condiment, herb or spice.
  2. (by extension) Anything added to increase enjoyment.
  3. A coat of polymerized oil inside a cooking vessel which renders the surface non-stick.
  4. An alcoholic intoxication.
  5. In diamond-cutting, the charging of the laps or wheels with diamond dust and oil.
SEASONING verb
  1. To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure.
  2. (by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
  3. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
  4. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
  5. To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
  6. To copulate with; to impregnate.
SEASONING verb
  1. To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.

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