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lick † 
1 n. a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.
See also: salt spring
- 1825 (1832) Deer will go miles to the salt spring, or "licks" as they are called.
2 n. a place where the ground contains particles of salt and other minerals, resorted to by wild animals.
See also: salt lick (def. 2)
- 1832 Buffalo, or deer licks, are prairies or marshes rendered salt by the overflowing of numerous salt springs; both buffalo and deer resort to them for the purpose of licking the salt off the shrubs hence the name lick.
- 1957 . . . the goat evidently was headed for the same lick from which the sheep were returning.
- 1825 (1832) Deer will go miles to the salt spring, or "licks" as they are called.