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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.pl.

goods such as ammunition, clothing, tobacco, and knives, as a grubstake advanced to hunters, trappers, and others dealing with fur-trading companies, to be later deducted from the payment for their catches.

See: debt

Quotations

1801

I gave the . . . men their equipment and advances.

1848

They all proceeded to the trading-room, for the purpose of taking "advances," in the shape of shirts, trousers, bonnets, caps, tobacco, knives, capotes, and all the other things necessary for a long, rough journey.

1947

[The French] introduced the practice of fall "advances" which is still the basis of Canadian fur trade.