side bark

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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sheets of thin birch bark for forming the sides of canoes, as opposed to bottom bark.

Quotations

1822

That the following prices be allowed for Country produce . . . Birch Bottom Bark 3s. and side Do. Is. 6d.

1922

[The bark] is trimmed evenly for its whole length, and is then ready to receive the "side bark," which is thinner than that first applied.