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- noun A
salt lick used bydeer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And from the Matthews place -- past the deerlick in the big, low gap past Sammy's Lookout and around the shoulder of
The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 1908
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In the edge of the timber beyond the deerlick, the two young lovers found those other older lovers, and were welcomed by them with the welcome that can only be given or received by those whose hearts and souls are big enough to follow the trail that is nobody knows how old.
The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 1908
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They did their level bravest to make a jolly thing of it; but Jean's attempt to watch a deerlick resulted in a wetting through the sudden advent of a shower; and the shower drove about all the punkies and mosquitoes in the neighborhood under our roof for shelter.
Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855
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At four and a half miles, we reached some high cliffs of a yellow earth, on the south, near which are two beautiful runs of water, rising in the adjacent prairies, and one of them with a deerlick, about two hundred yards from its mouth.
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