Deerlick

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A salt lick used by deer.

    "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..."

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"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..."

Etymology

From deer + lick.

Related phrases

salt lick

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