beaver-press

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a heavy press (of several types) for compressing furs into 90-pound bales.

Quotations

1952

He notes the dimensions of the beaver-press, or fur-press, to have been two feet four inches in length, and one foot two inches in breadth. . . .