deergut en · NOUN
Etymology
From deer + gut.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The gut of a deer, traditionally used as a material.
“The tradecraft of the modern-day special operator, parachuting into the Hindu Kush after the Taliban,” echoes “the efforts of men from a preindustrial community struggling through New England winters on hickory and deergut snowshoes,” Ross writes.
2009 June 28, Marc Tracy, “Nonfiction Chronicle”, in New York Times: