DCHP-3

end-man

Fur Trade, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

one of the two paddlers occupying either the bow or the stern of a canoe.

Quotations

1761
Skilful men, at double the wages of the rest, are placed in the head and stern. . . . They engage . . . the middle-men at one hundred and fifty livres and the end-men at three hundred livres, each.