DCHP-1 Online
scare-wolf West, Obs. 
n. a device similar to a scarecrow, used to frighten wolves from carcasses of large game left by hunters for retrieving later.
- 1853 "I left a `scare-wolf' over both the [buffalo] bulls, however, and I guess we'll find them all right in the morning."
- 1892 . . . the two trappers butchered the carcass and returned to camp, staggering under the weight of as much meat as they could carry. The hide was suspended to a pole cut from the ill-fated poplar; in which position the hunters hoped it would act as a sufficient scare-wolf.
- 1853 "I left a `scare-wolf' over both the [buffalo] bulls, however, and I guess we'll find them all right in the morning."