DCHP-3

rat spear

Northwest
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1939 quote at muskrat spear.

Quotations

1939
A hunter tied his paddles lengthwise to the bars of his canoe, poked his rat spear and a nice pole . . . in with them.
1956
Napao then took his rat spear, three feet long, barbed and affixed it to a slender pole, and probed the house till he found a spot where the wall was the thinnest.