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carrier
Fur Trade, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who took trading goods inland and carried furs back to a post.
See: trader(def. 2)
Quotations
1795
I have often heard it observed, that the Indians who attend the deer-pounds might, in the course of a winter, collect a vast number of pelts, which could well serve the attention of those who are called carriers or traders.