DCHP-1 Online
drying stage 
1 Nfld See flake 1883 quote.
See also: flake
- 1907 The women work on the drying stages as well as the men, laying out the fish whenever the sun shines, and piling into heaps under layers of bark whenever it threatens to rain
2 North 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: dried fish dried meat (def. 2) fish stage (def. 1) stage ((n.)) (def. 3) staging (def. 1)
- 1922 . . . put up on the drying stage some four or five hundred whitefish and trout. . . .
- 1963 They stocked up with meat but had to travel for two days before they found poplar trees big enough to make poles for drying-stages on which it could be exposed. . . .
- 1907 The women work on the drying stages as well as the men, laying out the fish whenever the sun shines, and piling into heaps under layers of bark whenever it threatens to rain