DCHP-3

head guide

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v. — Fur Trade, Hist.

the man in charge of a brigade.

See: brigade,conductor(def. 1),guide ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1921
The head guide was chosen on account of his being an old steersman who knew the route well, was a good judge of both water and weather, and being a good fighter, could if occasion arose enforce his orders with a dose of elbow grease.
1935
The head guide brings out the tobacco ration, and while the canoes cluster around he distributes to every man half a plug of the Hudson's Bay Imperial twist tobacco.