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1 — Hist.
See 1857 quote.
See: dry meat
Quotations
1765-75
In Jany thay Began to Aproach us & Brot with them Drid & Grean Meet, Bever . . . Raccone & other Skins to trade.
1800
Collin came back [bringing] a little dryed and Green Meat.
1857
Dried meat is the flesh of the buffalo cut into long, broad, and thin pieces about two feet by fifteen inches, which are smoked over a slow fire for a few minutes and then packed into a bale of about sixty pounds.
1956
When fully dried, a buffalo cow was estimated to yield 45 pounds of dried meat which was quite a saving in weight in comparison with the original carcass.
2
the flesh of caribou, moose, etc. cured by smoking and exposure to the sun.
See: drying stage(def. 2)
Quotations
1774
I gave him a little Dryd meat &c to carry home. . . .
1896
I loaded my sled with thirty whitefish, three days' provision for the dogs, and fifteen pounds of dried meat for the boy.
1963
The "dried meat"--Indians of the far north used the rib or side-meat, with bones extracted, of the reindeer almost exclusively to earn this name--was preserved at the season when the animals were at their best condition. . . .