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fur-hunting
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the trapping of fur-bearing animals for sale of their pelts.
See: furring
Quotations
1819
This fur-hunting employs a great number of persons, not only within the limits of the Hudson's Bay Company, but also on the coast of Labrador and in the northern parts of Newfoundland.
1862
The Company's policy will drive scores if not hundreds into the fur business who would not otherwise have gone, and who, while they could make a tolerable living here, would never have dreamt of going out a fur-hunting.