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salt lick

noun

  1. a place to which animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits.
  2. a block of salt or salt preparation provided, as in a pasture, for cattle, horses, etc.


salt lick

noun

  1. a place where wild animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits
  2. a block of salt or a salt preparation given to domestic or farm animals to lick
“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 salt lick1

An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
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Example Sentences

“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.

On 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.

On 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.

The pitfall is now prohibited, so also is the Assam plan of inclosing a herd in a salt lick.

It stood near a path, much frequented by elephants, leading to a salt lick in the hills a few hundred yards away.

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