sweat n
1 The moisture and salt particles exuded by salted cod-fish in the drying process (P 148-62).
2 Comb sweat hole: among the Labrador indians, a cavity used for medicinal sweating; sweathouse.
1907 WALLACE 124-5 On the take shore were some other camping places that had been used within a few months, and at one of them a newiv made 'sweat hole,' where the medicine man had treated the sick. These sweat holes are much in favor with the Labrador Indians, both Mountaineers and Nascaupees. They are about two feet in depth and large enough in circumference for a man to sit in the center, surrounded by a circle of good-sized bowlders. Small saplings are bent to form a dome-shaped frame for the top. The invalid is placed in the center of this circle of bowlders, which have previously been made very hot, water is poured on them to produce steam, and a blanket thrown over the sapling frame to confine the steam.
sweat-pad: stuffed material worn as part of horse's harness.
T 100/1-64 An' they also used another pad they [called] a sweat-pad, so as the horse wouldn't gall his shoulders here, front shoulders.
