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Definition of Babiche
1. Noun. (North America) Thongs of rawhide or sinew used as cord, lacing, or webbing, in the manufacture of snowshoes, braided straps and tumplines, fishing and harpoon lines, knit bags, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babiche
1. rawhide thongs [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babiche
Literary usage of Babiche
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Explorations in the Far North by Frank Russell (1898)
"The line attached to the end loops is of four-ply babiche, two feet long. ...
babiche. This is a line cut from a wet, partially dressed skin and stretched ..."
2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Narrow strips, called babiche by the French, were employed for fishing and harpoon
lines, nets, lacing for snowshoes, rackets, ball sticks, ..."
3. Alaska and Its Resources by William Healey Dall (1897)
"babiche. —The term applied by the French Canadians of Hudson Bay to a fine rawhide
line, formed by removing the hair from the reindeer skin, soaking, ..."
4. The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Mayer Pike (1917)
"... dress the skins for moccasins, mittens, and gun-covers, and cut babiche, which
takes the place of string for lacing snow-shoes and many other purposes. ..."
5. The French Regime in Wisconsin ... 1634-1760 by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... that la babiche, who is Chief there, held a Council in which it was decided
that they ... In babiche gathered his young men and took the man by force. ..."
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