DCHP-3

fur ((n.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1an.

(used attributively) denoting regions where fur-bearing animals are hunted commercially.

Quotations

1809
The express words of the treaty are . . . drawn with a degree of absurdity and ignorance hardly to be conceived, and which has wantonly given away several thousand leagues of the richest fur country to which the Americans had no more right than they had to the Province of Bengal.
1879
The term "half-breed" is applied indiscriminately in the Fur Land to all persons having Indian blood in their veins, and bears no especial reference to quantity.
1896
All is included in the "Northern Department" of the Hudson's Bay Company, which has subdivided it into some half dozen fur districts.
1933
Picking out good fur ground is an art.
1949
Not only did the beaver abound in the fur forest of the Saskatchewan, but the farther north and west the traders went, the better the quality of the fur became.
1960
If farmers were to invade the Fur Country, the Bay was determined that any loss must be borne by their rivals.
1b

denoting persons or groups occupied in the fur trade.

Quotations

1820, 1823
We shall merely add a few remarks on the manner in which the trade is conducted at the different inland posts of the Fur Companies.
1907
Opposition became keen and fur buyers from Quebec, Boston, New York and Paris, came to the different places of resort of the Indians, bidding up raw furs to prices out of all reason.
1934
The Fur Lords no longer rule the Red Men. . . .
1949
The first attack was driven off but the furmen put undefended houses in the settlement to the torch.
1966
. . . Grant ruled the métis when the Red River Valley was a bloody battleground for competing fur companies and the métis hunting rights were being threatened.
2n.

fur-bearing animals or their pelts.

Quotations

1928
As the rabbits get too thick, lack of feed or cold gives them a contagious sickness and soon all are dead. The fur leaves, that fed on them.
1933
Some believe it is all right to skin and scrape and spread fur on Sundays, but Harvey spoiled his luck one year that way.
1951
Fur doesn't move any more than necessary in weather like this, anyway. . . .