in the meat

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of furs or skins, attached to the animal's body.

1797

[He] brought two Deers in Meat for which I paid him Ten Pints Mixed Rum, & the Boisson Begun.

1801

Came down Park river in a skin canoe, with 25 Beaver skins, 12 of which were still in the meat.