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Definition of Salt lick
1. Noun. A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salt Lick
Literary usage of Salt lick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1833)
"salt lick near Vanceburg and mouth of salt lick Creek. ... salt lick near mouth
of Troublesome cr. 56 to 59. Red Lick, Blue Lick, Copper Lick and Rock Lick ..."
2. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... salt lick or salt spring; these were reserved by the same act as public
property, together with six hundred and forty acres of adjoining lands ..."
3. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1906)
"... which sale shall be made at the court-house of the county where such salt lick
or springs may be situate; and the said Commissioners shall have the ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"A Grinder of n non-descript Animal of the Western Country, found at the Big Bone
Salt-Lick, and weighing Four Pounds.— Maryland Journal, Jan. 16. ..."
5. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1861)
"AN ACT declaring salt lick creek, in Lewis county, a navigable stream. Be it
enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § I. That Salt ..."
6. Atlantic Journal and Friend of Knowledge by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1833)
"salt lick near Vanceburg and mouth of salt lick Creek. ... salt lick near mouth
of Troublesome cr. 56 to 59. Red Lick, Blue Lick, Copper Lick and Rock Lick ..."
7. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... salt lick or salt spring; these were reserved by the same act as public
property, together with six hundred and forty acres of adjoining lands ..."
8. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"(Indiana vs. Miller, 3 McL. C. Ct., 151.) salt lick is a salt spring.—A salt lick
and a salt spring mean the same ..."
9. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... or salt lick. A salt spring is called a lick, in the western parts of the U.
States, from the circumstance that the earth about it, which is impregnated ..."
10. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
""A distinction is made between a salt lick and a salt spring by ... A salt lick
is so called, in the western country, from the fact that deer and other wild ..."
11. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1906)
"... which sale shall be made at the court-house of the county where such salt lick
or springs may be situate; and the said Commissioners shall have the ..."
12. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"A Grinder of n non-descript Animal of the Western Country, found at the Big Bone
Salt-Lick, and weighing Four Pounds.— Maryland Journal, Jan. 16. ..."
13. Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth by Kentucky (1861)
"AN ACT declaring salt lick creek, in Lewis county, a navigable stream. Be it
enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § I. That Salt ..."
14. United States Mineral Lands: Laws Governing Their Occupancy and Disposal by Henry Norris Copp (1882)
"(Indiana vs. Miller, 3 McL. C. Ct., 151.) salt lick is a salt spring.—A salt lick
and a salt spring mean the same ..."
15. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... or salt lick. A salt spring is called a lick, in the western parts of the U.
States, from the circumstance that the earth about it, which is impregnated ..."
16. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
""A distinction is made between a salt lick and a salt spring by ... A salt lick
is so called, in the western country, from the fact that deer and other wild ..."
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