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deer lick

noun

  1. a spot of ground, naturally or artificially salty, where deer come to lick.


deer lick

noun

  1. a naturally or artificially salty area of ground where deer come to lick the salt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of deer lick1

First recorded in 1735–45
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Example Sentences

"There comes your trouble now," he added, pointing to a girl on a brown pony, coming slowly out of the timber near the deer lick.

There was a deer-lick on our camp-ground there at Bridge Creek, and during the night deer came down and strayed through the camp.

Naturally it is a "deer-lick," which makes it a Mecca during the open season to hunters.

When only seven or eight miles from Wheeling and west of the Ohio river, they came upon a trail which led to a deer lick.

Finally one of them got up and moved away, taking a torch with him, doubtless with the intention of watching a deer lick.

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