deerlick

plural deerlicks

1. A salt lick used by deer.

   He'd hearn tell of deerlicks, and how they were sometimes made. So he started out one Sunday into the woods, with a bag of salt...

   1854, Samuel H Hammond, Hills, lakes, and forest streams: or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods

   1 more example

   Deerlicks, it is true, were known here long before the Revolution, and Captain Brady and other hunters from Fort Pitt frequently took advantage of them...

   1908, John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan, A century and a half of Pittsburg and her people, Volume 1