grease

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Fur Trade, Hist.

the rendered fat of large mammals, especially the bison, used as food, in pemmican, and in the making of soap and candles.

Quotations

1794

. . . a band of Assiniboines arrived with a small quantity of pounded meat & Grease.

1820

Do me the favor to send . . . a few bladders of grease.

1931

. . . the train wound its slow way back to Pembina laden with ... 166 boskoyas, or bags of grease; and 556 bladders of marrow grease.