| 释义 |
ˈdeer-lick U.S.
A small spring or spot of damp ground, impregnated with salt, potash, alum, or the like, where deer come to lick.
1778Maryland Jrnl. 2 June (Th.), I never saw a Deer-lick. Hunters have told me that Deer frequent those places for the mud. 1823W. Faux Memorable Days Amer. 234, I saw a deer-lick, at which I dismounted and took a lick. 1876R. L. Price Two Americas (1877) 217 A deer-lick is a small spring of saline or sulphur-impregnated water, to which..all the deer in the country for miles and miles will come to ‘liquor up’. 1890H. S. Hallett 1000 miles 362 The place is a deer-lick, and the caravans of cattle which passed..so enjoyed licking the puddles, that they could hardly be driven from the place. |