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smoke-dried

British  

adjective

  1. (of fish, meat, etc) cured in smoke

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At one point he admits to sleeping comfortably one night "with half-a-dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head".

From The Guardian Jan. 20, 2013

Nhamo gutted the little fish and smoke-dried them over her cook-fire.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Cringing, the old man pointed to a great shell that held water, and pushed towards the fire another shell in which were strips of smoke-dried fish.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The doctor, ever fertile in resources, had had a stone hut constructed in which both birds and fish could be smoke-dried after the fashion practised in England and elsewhere.

From The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. by Kingston, William Henry Giles

I once travelled up to London with him and pointed out a great house that was gradually getting absorbed into the creeping metropolis but which still preserved its country characteristics, stately and smoke-dried.

From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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