DCHP-3

lick†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.

Quotations

1825
Deer will go miles to the salt spring, or "licks" as they are called.
2n.

a place where the ground contains particles of salt and other minerals, resorted to by wild animals.

See: salt lick(def. 2)

Quotations

1832
Buffalo, or deer licks, are prairies or marshes rendered salt by the overflowing of numerous salt springs; both buffalo and deer resort to them for the purpose of licking the salt off the shrubs hence the name lick.
1957
. . . the goat evidently was headed for the same lick from which the sheep were returning.