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staging Esp. North

• 1 n. a platform of poles, usually high enough to be out of reach of dogs or predatory animals, on which fish or meat are placed to dry.

  See also: drying stage (def. 2)  stage ((n.)) (def. 3)  

  • 1889  . . . on many prominent points were Indian stagings for drying and smoking the salmon. . . .
  • 1896  (1898)  The fish are hung in the fishery in "sticks" upon staging, to dry and freeze; a stick, an inch in diameter is thrust through the tail and they are hung heads downward in bunches of ten.

• 2 n. a platform raised high off the ground, as in a tree, where meat and other food might be put out of the reach of predatory animals.

  See also: stage ((n.)) (def. 4)  

  • 1947  Their traps, snowshoes, and hunting sleds have been cached all summer on stagings at last winter's camping places. . . .

• 3 n. Maritimes a pier for unloading fishing boats.

  See also: stagehead  

  • 1956  And then on the steel curve you saw . . . the scatter of gray weathered cottages and fish sheds, the small wharves and stagings and the boats. . . .