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fur stretcher

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a device, such as a willow wand fashioned into a hoop, or a thin board of appropriate shape, used by trappers to stretch their pelts to dry. See picture at stretcher.

See: fur board,stretcher

Quotations

1922

Everything an Indian requires in wood is made with this [crooked] knife--canoes, flatsleds, snowshoes, paddles, net floats and fur stretchers.

1954

Then I sharpened a knife, hunted up a fur stretcher of the right size and sat down to fix up the marten.