deerlick

noun

Etymology

From deer + lick.

  1. derived from *leyǵʰ- — “to lick
  2. inherited from *likkōną
  3. inherited from *likkōn
  4. inherited from liccian
  5. inherited from likken
  6. compounded as deerlick — “deer + lick

Definitions

  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...
    • Deerlicks, it is true, were known here long before the Revolution, and Captain Brady and other hunters from Fort Pitt frequently took advantage of them...

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