salt lick
a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
a block of salt or salt preparation provided, as in a pasture, for cattle, horses, etc.
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How to use salt lick in a sentence
“They were very gentle and nice people,” says salt lick employee Tana Kent.
If the salt was in an accessible place there would have been a salt lick there and goats in plenty.
Space Prison | Tom GodwinOn the 1st of April we began to erect the fort of Boonesborough, at a salt lick sixty yards from the river, on the south side.
The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam | John FrostOn one occasion I was watching a salt lick for deer; I was on a scaffold built up in a tree thirty or forty feet from the ground.
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper | Eldred Nathaniel WoodcockThe pitfall is now prohibited, so also is the Assam plan of inclosing a herd in a salt lick.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon | Robert A. Sterndale
It stood near a path, much frequented by elephants, leading to a salt lick in the hills a few hundred yards away.
Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon Casserly
British Dictionary definitions for salt lick
a place where wild animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits
a block of salt or a salt preparation given to domestic or farm animals to lick
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