DCHP-3

prime

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. adv.

designating skins that are in undeteriorated winter growth of hair and full thickness of hide.

See: unprime

Quotations

1825
[. . . the weather is now becoming very warm. Still the Beaver are in their Prime.]
1859
The fur of our fox was "prime,"--as the phrase is here,--that is to say, he was in his complete winter coat, which had not been worn long enough to become torn or rusty.
1913
. . . in the fur book the names of each kind of skin and whether large or small, prime or common, were written alphabetically.
1965
A wolverine, prime-furred, is as sleek and glossy as a marten.