Indian pack

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a package of furs weighing about 60 pounds, smaller than the normal piece (def. 1) which weighed 90 pounds.

Quotations

1823

The Iroquois passed early in the spring with eighteen Indian packs in their canoes,--each pack might be estimated at 60 l.