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use verb Of a wild animal: to visit habitually, make a home at, frequent or loiter around (a place) regularly for feeding, grazing, bedding down, etc. [EDD use v 7; Web3 chiefly dialect; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1878 Coale Wilburn Waters 44 Wilburn asked Blevins if his was a good region for wolves. On being informed that any number “used in those parts," as well as bears and all sorts of wild animals, he at once determined to go there and try his luck. 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 65 There is a fox using on Sharp Top. 1953 Hall Coll (Plott Creek NC) These bears was using in a apple orchard there. 1996 Harrell Fetch It 167 In our hiking, we came across considerable black bear signs. We passed an apple tree or two, and the bear had eaten an apple or two. They had bedded down there, and they had left claw marks on the trunk of the apple tree where they had climbed up and down. These signs were fairly fresh, meaning they were “using” there at the time.