DCHP-1 Online
salt-water creek Obs. 
a small spring or stream containing salt from local deposits and used by animals as a source of salt.
See also: salt spring
- 1786 (1787) In several places, in the vicinity of the lakes [Ontario and Erie], are found salt water creeks, probably impregnated by the veins of rock-salt, sometimes found in the bowels of the earth. . . .
- 1786 (1787) In several places, in the vicinity of the lakes [Ontario and Erie], are found salt water creeks, probably impregnated by the veins of rock-salt, sometimes found in the bowels of the earth. . . .