DCHP-1 Online

rawhiding B.C. Hist.

• n. the practice of transporting goods, especially ore, in winter by wrapping them in dressed but untanned hides, hair out and head forward, the lashed package being drawn by rope tugs over the snow and ice.

  See also: rawhide ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1896  There is some snow now, just enough for rawhiding.
  • 1897  The principal use of the quadruped snow shoe is to break trails for rawhiding.