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fur stretcher 
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.
- 1922 Everything an Indian requires in wood is made with this [crooked] knife--canoes, flatsleds, snowshoes, paddles, net floats and fur stretchers.
- 1954 Then I sharpened a knife, hunted up a fur stretcher of the right size and sat down to fix up the marten.
- 1922 Everything an Indian requires in wood is made with this [crooked] knife--canoes, flatsleds, snowshoes, paddles, net floats and fur stretchers.