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pounded meat

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the flesh of the caribou, buffalo, or other game cut into thin slices, dried in the sun or over a fire, and pulverized between two stones, the resulting powder being the basic ingredient of pemmican.

See: beat meat,piled meat,pound ((2)) ((v.))

Quotations

1775

. . . one Cannoe came with some Dry'd & Pownded Meate, and return'd emediately after trading. . . .

1896

While at the Dog Rib camps at the edge of the Barren Ground, I saw large quantities of pounded meat, grease, and tongues eaten, and all was hospitably shared with me, yet they refused to sell any of these luxuries if carried away from the camp.

1956

The meat so acquired would either be dried, converted into pounded meat, or mixed with fat and cranberries and made up as pemmican.