DCHP-1 Online
dried fish Esp. North 
dried and, sometimes, smoked fish, as whitefish, long used for food for both men and dogs by the Indians and Eskimos.
See also: drying stage (def. 2) fish (def. 2) green fish (def. 2) hung fish
- c1665 (1885) After came a company of women . . . that brought us dry fish and Indian corn.
- 1785 (1954) James Robinson is here now and . . . going up nodway River to fetch his stock of dry'd Fish. . . .
- 1847 (1910) Their stock of provisions, consisting generally of dried fish, is kept outside in a "cache" made of branches and snow, open above on which are placed their sleighs.
- 1921 Even to-day it is so difficult to obtain forage at some of the northern Hudson's Bay posts that it is not uncommon to feed cows during the winter on dried fish.
- 1962 Pounded Dry Fish Pudding. Pound up 5 or 6 dry fish and throw away the skin. Add sugar to taste, a small amount of grease, and cranberries . . . Bertha Allen.
- c1665 (1885) After came a company of women . . . that brought us dry fish and Indian corn.