deerlick
deerlick noun: a salt lick used by deer.
Noun
deerlick (plural deerlicks)
- 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...1854, Samuel H Hammond, Hills, lakes, and forest streams: or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods
- 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...1908, John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan, A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people, Volume 1
Forms of deerlick
| plural | deerlicks |
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Origin of deerlick
From deer + lick.
Questions about deerlick
- What does deerlick mean?
- Deerlick means a salt lick used by deer.
- What part of speech is deerlick?
- Deerlick is a noun.
- What is the plural of deerlick?
- The plural of deerlick is deerlicks.
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