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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
(used attributively) of or having to do with the transporting of goods, especially in the North and West.
Quotations
1879
The vehicles to which dogs are harnessed in the Fur Land are of three kinds--the passenger sledge, or dog-cariole, the freight-sledge, and the travaille.
1938
Freight brigades would come and go, the store would be crowded with Indians, men, women, and children.
1965
When the Metis boys became men they often worked for the fur traders as interpreters, guides, and freight drivers.