DCHP-3

Northman

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Fur Trade, Hist.

a seasoned fur trader or voyageur who spent his winters in the fur country.

See: Man of the North(def. 1),winterer(def. 2a)

Quotations

1793
The North men while here live in tents of different sizes pitched at random. . . .
1894
To the north-men, as the employés who wintered in the forest were called, were attached more than seven hundred native women and children, victualled at the Company's expense.
1938
Beyond Grande Portage the freighting was taken over by the boastful, hard-drinking, hard-fighting Northmen whose duty it was to convey the goods to the distant wilds of Saskatchewan and the Athabasca.
1957
It had been said that no other northman could blow up such a wind of brag or sweeten insults with such wild honey. . . .
2n.

a resident or native of the North, especially the Far North.

See: Northerner(def. 1)

Quotations

1953
The northmen of the forts, the trappers and wanderers of the barrens, speak from lifetimes of experience and an intimate concern with things northern.
3n.

an Indian of the north coast of British Columbia, especially of the Haida.

See: Northern Indian(def. 2)

Quotations

1958
The northmen they feared were the dreaded Haidas of the Queen Charlotte Islands.