to use

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To frequent a place. This word is employed in the following sense among the hunters of the West: 'I can see where the deer used,' i. e. where the deer have been, or where they have fed. The sense intended to be conveyed, is that the deer has left tracks and other marks on the ground used by him. This term is also noticed by Mr. Sherwood as provincial in Georgia; as, 'The sheep used in that field.'

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