fur ((v.))

Nfld.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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hunt fur-bearing animals; run a trapline.

Quotations

1799

[. . . it is not a mile broad there, as I was informed by planters at Bonaventure, who usually go a furring there in the winter.]

1912

You see he worked the bones through his hide, furring all winter and fishing summers, and what he earned he'd get in truck from the company.

1933

He used to fur the path that cuts in over the hills from Grand Lake, near Cotter's Point. . . .