单词 | deer-lick |
释义 | deer-lickn. U.S. A small spring or spot of damp ground, impregnated with salt, potash, alum, or the like, where deer come to lick. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > salt-marsh > where animals lick lick1747 licking-place1751 licking-pond1751 deer-lick1778 1778 Maryland Jrnl. 2 June I never saw a Deer-lick. Hunters have told me that Deer frequent those places for the mud. 1823 W. Faux Mem. Days Amer. 234 I saw a deer-lick, at which I dismounted and took a lick. 1876 R. 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’. 1890 H. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1778 |
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