deer-lick

Tape the exposed wires to a block of deer-lick salt.

The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber 2008

We took th 'two ridges north o' th 'shanty deer-lick' n 'drove west, with them on a runway sure to get a deer if there was any left t' start runnin '.

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

Formerly there was a deer-lick upon it, and I am told that on every dewy morning or starlit evening you might see a herd of pretty creatures gathering in antlered beauty about its margin.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

There was a deer-lick on our camp-ground there at Bridge Creek, and during the night deer came down and strayed through the camp.

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

I was probably not more than a mile away when you found that deer-lick.

Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913

The hours which other boys spent in roaming the woods or lying in ambush at the deer-lick, he preferred to devote to his effort at mental improvement.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

And there was Dr. Romsen, lean, satirical, kindly, a skilful though reluctant physician, who regarded it as a personal injury if any one in the party fell sick in summer time; and a passionately unsuccessful hunter, who would sit all night in the crotch of a tree beside an alleged deer-lick, and come home perfectly satisfied if he had heard

Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892

The hours which other boys spent in roaming the woods or lying in ambush at the deer-lick, he preferred to devote to his effort at mental improvement.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866

There was in the neighborhood of the Lincoln home what was known in the West as a deer-lick -- that is, there existed a feeble salt-spring, which impregnated the soil in its vicinity or created little pools of brackish water -- and various kinds of animals, particularly deer, resorted there to satisfy their natural craving for salt by drinking from these or licking the moist earth.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866

About nine o'clock one of them arose, shouldered his rifle, took a chunk of fire in his hand, and left the camp, doubtless in search of a deer-lick.

Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. John Frost 1829