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comers and goers
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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voyageurs plying between Quebec and the fur country, especially the porkeaters (def. 1a).
Quotations
1665
The way was well beaten because of the comers and goers, who by making that passage shortens their passage by 8 dayes by tourning about the point that goes very farr in that great lake.
1913
Arrivals and departures of all "comers and goers" . . . were all fully noted. . . .
1931
. . . he followed the portage route already well marked by the feet of the "comers and goers." This epithet was sometimes used as the English equivalent of mangeurs de lard.