striplin

More than forty years I've handled fur, an 'yet to-day the striplin' knows more about fur, an 'the value of fur, than I ever will know.

The Challenge of the North 1921

"She came up the Wabash when she was nothin 'but a striplin'," began Striker, not profiting by his wife's experience.

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Ez I war a-ridin 'along through the woods this mornin' I kem acrost a striplin 'lad a-walkin' through the undergrowth ez onconsarned ez a killdee an 'ez nimble. An' under his chin war a fiddle, an 'his head war craned down ter it. "

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886