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half-dried North 
adj. pertaining to meat or fish dried on the outside by exposure to the sun and wind, a process which forms an airtight sun-glazed envelope that protects the moist inner flesh from deterioration.
- 1777 (1957) Our half dried Meat here [Cumberland House] is such as is called dried meat at York Fort. The same kind traded here in the Warm Weather is much dried to preserve it after we receive it.
- 1811 (1950) Vallade and Cote arrived[;] they brought 6 Bundles of half dried Meat, the whole they could preserve of the Animals killed.
- 1835 (1945) A Canoe arrived from Pearl Harbour and traded about a hundred salmon, mostly half dried.
- 1956 Not much has been written aout half-dry meat. Stefansson states that this is the favorite form of preparation when the caribou are fat, over Canada from Lake Athabasca northward.
- 1777 (1957) Our half dried Meat here [Cumberland House] is such as is called dried meat at York Fort. The same kind traded here in the Warm Weather is much dried to preserve it after we receive it.