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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
prepare meat for pemmican by pounding it to powder between two stones, an Indian practice adopted by the white man in the old Northwest.
See: pounded meat
Quotations
1770
We agreed to stay here for a day or two, to dry and pound some of the carcases to take with us.
1834
Busily employed drying and pounding meat to render it more portable.
1921
Here they remained for about ten days, drying and pounding caribou meat and cutting light tepee poles for use on the Barren Grounds, where no poles could be found.