DCHP-3

Northland string

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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strips of leather, or thongs, made from the hide of a moose, caribou, etc. used for laces, threads, netting, etc.

See: babiche(def. 1)

Quotations

1896
The woman . . . scrapes and tans the moose and caribou hides, from the latter of which she afterwards makes babiche (Northland string) by cutting it into strips an eighth of an inch wide.