DCHP-1 Online
salt lick † Obs. 
1 a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.
See also: lick (def. 1) salt spring
- 1793 (1833) We crossed two or three rivulets through a thick wood, and over a Salt Lick, and stopped at four o'clock to give the Indians time to make a small wigwam.
- 1832 [Finding the deer] is best to be effected at the salt licks, or springs, whither they resort to drink.
2 a place where the ground contains particles of salt and other minerals, resorted to by wild animals.
See also: lick (def. 2) licking place
- 1828 Found, thirteen feet below the surface of the earth, on Simpson's job, Welland Canal, in the old salt lick . . . a deer's horn. . . .
- 1955 By some mysterious kind of forest telegraph, all the hoofed creatures for miles around learnt about that salt, a commodity that is rare in the mountains, where the salt licks are not only few, but also far between.
3 a place, such as a hollow log or a hole at the base of a tree, where salt is placed by a hunter as a lure for game.
- 1903 I reckon there's only two ways to shoot a moose: one is to coax him within range by imitating the call of his mate; the other way is to make a salt lick for him.
- 1793 (1833) We crossed two or three rivulets through a thick wood, and over a Salt Lick, and stopped at four o'clock to give the Indians time to make a small wigwam.