Quick links
scare-wolf
West, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.
n.
a device similar to a scarecrow, used to frighten wolves from carcasses of large game left by hunters for retrieving later.
Quotations
1853
"I left a `scare-wolf' over both the [buffalo] bulls, however, and I guess we'll find them all right in the morning."
1892
. . . the two trappers butchered the carcass and returned to camp, staggering under the weight of as much meat as they could carry. The hide was suspended to a pole cut from the ill-fated poplar; in which position the hunters hoped it would act as a sufficient scare-wolf.