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lick noun A blow or stroke with the hand or a sharp or heavy instrument. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland, Texas, Oklahoma]

1862 Robinson CW Letters (Sept 4) I told them that I would be damd if I would Stricke anuther lick. 1900 Harben N GA Sketches 49 He never would work a lick. 1939 Hall Coll (Sugarlands TN) I knocked [the bear] in the head ever so many licks before I could get it to roll over and hush hollerin’. 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 89 I commenced driving and I hit that drill a hard lick and hit broke in two right above his hand just as smooth as if you’d took a saw and cut it off. 1998 Dante OHP-51 She give everybody else five licks, she was a hard teacher.