DCHP-3

half-dried

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

pertaining to meat or fish dried on the outside by exposure to the sun and wind, a process which forms an airtight sun-glazed envelope that protects the moist inner flesh from deterioration.

Quotations

1777
Our half dried Meat here [Cumberland House] is such as is called dried meat at York Fort. The same kind traded here in the Warm Weather is much dried to preserve it after we receive it.
1811
Vallade and Cote arrived[;] they brought 6 Bundles of half dried Meat, the whole they could preserve of the Animals killed.
1835
A Canoe arrived from Pearl Harbour and traded about a hundred salmon, mostly half dried.
1956
Not much has been written aout half-dry meat. Stefansson states that this is the favorite form of preparation when the caribou are fat, over Canada from Lake Athabasca northward.