far (out)

West and North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adv.

of caribou and, formerly, of buffalo, a long distance away from their customary feeding grounds.

Quotations

1858

Hector . . . records them as "far out" at Rocky Mountain House, in January, 1858.

1871 [1872]

. . . for the buffalo were "far out," on the great prairie, and that phrase "far out" applied to buffalo, means starvation in the North-west.

1957

Up around Norman Joe Blondin reports that the people have been living on moose meat all winter as the caribou were far.