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salt lick

Lick \Lick\, n. [See Lick, v.]

  1. A stroke of the tongue in licking. ``A lick at the honey pot.''
    --Dryden.

  2. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.

    A lick of court whitewash.
    --Gray.

  3. A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs. Called also salt lick.

Wiktionary
salt lick

alt. 1 A block of salt, often enriched with other minerals, licked by herd animals to supplement their diet. 2 A natural source of such minerals licked by animals. n. 1 A block of salt, often enriched with other minerals, licked by herd animals to supplement their diet. 2 A natural source of such minerals licked by animals.

WordNet
salt lick

n. a salt deposit that animals regularly lick [syn: lick]

Gazetteer
Salt Lick, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky
Population (2000): 342
Housing Units (2000): 157
Land area (2000): 0.781603 sq. miles (2.024342 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.781603 sq. miles (2.024342 sq. km)
FIPS code: 68160
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.119555 N, 83.616069 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40371
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Salt lick (disambiguation)

A salt lick is a salt deposit that animals regularly lick.

Salt lick or Saltlick may also refer to:

Usage examples of "salt lick".

The man wheeled back into Mexico, and since then nothing had disturbed the crossing except a few mangy goats on their way to the salt lick.

We ought to locate a salt lick and think about curing hides and things like that- that water skin I made is getting high already.

We ought to locate a salt lick and think about curing hides and things like that that water skin I made is getting high already.

A salt lick for the woods goats was hopefully tried, although Lake felt dubious about it.

On the contrary, sometimes the smell might mean that a salt lick would appear nearby.

If you can locate a salt lick in a cow pasture, I'd happily have dinner with you there.