stretcher

Fur Trade

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.

Quotations

1810

[. . . he accordingly gave up 32 Seasoned Beaver ... I seasoned but badly stretched Otter. . . .]

1921

After that, it is taken off the stretcher and rubbed together between the hands and pulled between two people.

1931

[They were] whittling out muskrat stretchers with crooked knives. . . .

1948

Marten stretchers are about three feet long and four inches wide, the whole length tapering off from the shoulders to a point at the nose.

1965

[Caption] Beaver pelts hang in stretchers (left) to dry.