| 单词 | salt-lick |
| 释义 | ˈsalt-lick
[lick n. 2.]
A place where cattle collect to lick the earth impregnated with salt. Also fig. Now chiefly N. Amer.
1751[see lick n. 2]. 1764Museum Rust. II. lxiv. 209 We give this name of salt licks to the salt springs, which, in various places, issue naturally out of the ground, and form each a little rill. 1767Hunter in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 39 The marsh, called the Salt-Lick, near the River Ohio. 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 10/2 They visit the salt-licks, and are there to be found at all seasons of the year; some leaving the saline morass, others travelling towards it. 1859J. Palliser Jrnl. 16 Feb. (1863) 129 A splendid ram..had been caught by setting a snare in a path leading to a ‘salt-lick’. 1922Beaver May 7/2 They [sc. bighorn sheep] being in the habit of seeking the salt-licks early in the morning and again late in the evening. 1948C. Day Lewis Poems 1943–47 75 The sea rolled up like a blind, oh pitiless light Revealing, shrivelling all! Lacklustre weeds My hours, my truth a salt-lick. 1965R. McKie Company of Animals vii. 113 Jim went at first light to check which animals were visiting a small salt-lick in the jungle. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone viii. 202 Immediately she was weeping in his arms, her face a lovely saltlick to his mouth. |
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