DCHP-3

snowshoe frame

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the wooden frame of a snowshoe (def. 1).

See: snowshoe ((n.)) (def. 1)

Quotations

1772
The Indians were employed . . . in preparing small staffs of birch-wood . . . which they convert into snow-shoe frames when the winter sets in.
1801
. . . Roy is getting wood for Snow Shoe frames. . . .
1954
Matt had a pair of snowshoe-frames which he had long meant to fill and this morning . . . he brought in the bucket of rawhide which he had put to soak behind the kitchen stove.