DCHP-3

fur-loft

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

that part of a trading post where furs are stored, folded, and baled for shipment.

Quotations

1921
In the morning a miserable north-easter was blowing a heavy fall of snow over the country, and the Factor offered to show me the fur-loft where the clerk and a few half-breed men-servants were folding and packing furs.
1936
Beside it was a storage-shed and fur-loft, flanked by a smokehouse and a net-reel and a pyramid of spindly firewood cut into stove-lengths.