DCHP-3

staging

Esp. North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a platform of poles, usually high enough to be out of reach of dogs or predatory animals, on which fish or meat are placed to dry.

See: drying stage(def. 2),stage ((n.))(def. 3)

Quotations

1889
. . . on many prominent points were Indian stagings for drying and smoking the salmon. . . .
1896
The fish are hung in the fishery in "sticks" upon staging, to dry and freeze; a stick, an inch in diameter is thrust through the tail and they are hung heads downward in bunches of ten.
2n.

a platform raised high off the ground, as in a tree, where meat and other food might be put out of the reach of predatory animals.

See: stage ((n.))(def. 4)

Quotations

1947
Their traps, snowshoes, and hunting sleds have been cached all summer on stagings at last winter's camping places. . . .
3n. — Maritimes

a pier for unloading fishing boats.

Quotations

1956
And then on the steel curve you saw . . . the scatter of gray weathered cottages and fish sheds, the small wharves and stagings and the boats. . . .