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buffalo pound
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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an enclosure, corral, or large trap into which the Indians drove buffalo in order to slaughter them.
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1772
Did not proceed. The men singing their Buffalo Pound songs.
1820
The buffalo-pound was a fenced circular space of about a hundred yards in diameter; the entrance was banked up with snow, to a sufficient height to prevent the retreat of the animals that once have entered.
1953
Their tribesmen below would corral the buffalo in a natural ravine buffalo pound and there slaughter them.
1963
They passed several Indian camps, each near a buffalo pound. . . .