Quick links
case
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
v.
skin (an animal) without slitting the hide; prepare (a pelt) by case-skinning.
Quotations
1712
I shall encourage the Indians to case the fox, cats and otters as they do the martens. . . .
1885
Ermine, Fisher, Foxes, Lynx, Martin, Mink, Oppossum, Otter, and Skunk, must be "cased" that is, not cut open.
1950
"Cased wolf" became the trade name for the animal [coyote], from the fact that the pelt was cased--peeled off without slitting the body--and dried over a frame. . . .