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deerlick en · NOUN

Etymology

From deer + lick.

Meanings

1. A salt lick used by deer.
   • Deerlicks, it is true, were known here long before the Revolution, and Captain Brady and other hunters from Fort Pitt frequently took advantage of them... 1908, John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan, A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people, Volume 1:
   • He'd hearn tell of deerlicks, and how they were sometimes made. So he started out one Sunday into the woods, with a bag of salt... 1854, Samuel H Hammond, Hills, lakes, and forest streams: or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods:

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