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salt lick

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salt lick
n.
1. A natural deposit of exposed salt that animals lick.
2. A block of salt or artificial medicated saline preparation set out for cattle, sheep, or deer to lick.
salt lick
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a place where wild animals go to lick naturally occurring salt deposits
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a block of salt or a salt preparation given to domestic animals to lick
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Noun1.salt licksalt lick - a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
lick
sediment, deposit - matter that has been deposited by some natural process


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Afterwards we proceeded on to Kentucke river without opposition; and on the first day of April began to erect the fort of Boonsborough at a salt lick, about sixty yards from the river, on the S.
Adventures Of Col. Daniel Boone by Filson, John View in context
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