fur pack

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pack of goods or furs weighing about 90 pounds.

See: piece(def. 1)

Quotations

1908

Up on Canoe River, Thompson and his voyageurs worked feverishly--building canoes, and getting the fur packs ready against spring.

1938

A fleet of . . . North canoes . . . conveyed the trading goods into the interior and the fur packs back to Montreal.