DCHP-3

skin stretcher

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a device, such as a willow wand fashioned into a hoop, or a thin board of appropriate shape, used by trappers to stretch,their pelts to dry. [See picture at stretcher.]

See: stretcher(and picture)

Quotations

1942
Near almost every doorway stood the native skin stretcher, a semi-circular wooden frame somewhat resembling a half wagon wheel.