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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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dried and, sometimes, smoked fish, as whitefish, long used for food for both men and dogs by the Indians and Eskimos.

See: drying stage(def. 2),fish(def. 2),green fish(def. 2),hung fish

Quotations

<i>c</i>1665

After came a company of women . . . that brought us dry fish and Indian corn.

1785

James Robinson is here now and . . . going up nodway River to fetch his stock of dry'd Fish. . . .

1847

Their stock of provisions, consisting generally of dried fish, is kept outside in a "cache" made of branches and snow, open above on which are placed their sleighs.

1921

Even to-day it is so difficult to obtain forage at some of the northern Hudson's Bay posts that it is not uncommon to feed cows during the winter on dried fish.

1962

Pounded Dry Fish Pudding. Pound up 5 or 6 dry fish and throw away the skin. Add sugar to taste, a small amount of grease, and cranberries . . . Bertha Allen.