DCHP-3

dry fish

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

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

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2 Maritimes

cod that have been full weather-cured on flakes.

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1905
A quintal is, roughly, a hundred pounds. One hundred quintals of green fish are equal, roughly, to thirty of dry, which at $3, would amount to $90.