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salt lick†
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.
Quotations
1793
We crossed two or three rivulets through a thick wood, and over a Salt Lick, and stopped at four o'clock to give the Indians time to make a small wigwam.
1832
[Finding the deer] is best to be effected at the salt licks, or springs, whither they resort to drink.
2
a place where the ground contains particles of salt and other minerals, resorted to by wild animals.
Quotations
1828
Found, thirteen feet below the surface of the earth, on Simpson's job, Welland Canal, in the old salt lick . . . a deer's horn. . . .
1955
By some mysterious kind of forest telegraph, all the hoofed creatures for miles around learnt about that salt, a commodity that is rare in the mountains, where the salt licks are not only few, but also far between.
3
a place, such as a hollow log or a hole at the base of a tree, where salt is placed by a hunter as a lure for game.
Quotations
1903
I reckon there's only two ways to shoot a moose: one is to coax him within range by imitating the call of his mate; the other way is to make a salt lick for him.