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salt spring

• 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 lick (def. 1)  salt-water creek  

  • 1822  There are likewise salt-licks or springs.
  • 1851  (1908)  Several salt springs issue at its foot, and spread over the plain.
  • 1867  These island marine plants have only as yet been detected on . the borders of large swamps or in the immediate vicinity of salt springs and "salt licks."