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1n. — Fur Trade
a trading post, especially, in later years, an inland post.
Quotations
1690
Distance from hence by Judgement at ye lest From ye house six hundred miles southwest.
1779
Good Pine or Poplar might be got near the House fit for Planking and Birch or a kind of Hickery fit for Knees and Timbers.
1828
They [Sicanee] seem to deserve a house somewhere, for their country is rich in beaver.
1873
Finlay's House, and Mackay's House. These "houses" were the trading posts of the first English Free-traders, whose combination in 1783 gave rise to the great North-West Fur Company.
1966
He's . . . a Cree from the Cumberland House region of Saskatchewan. . . .
2n. — Obs.
a domed structure of mud, sticks, stones, etc. built as a rule in a beaver pond behind the dam and used as a den by a family of beavers.
Quotations
1743
they [beaver] have a house they build mostly by creeks or Rivilets, the strength & Curiousness of which house would puzle a good workman to do the Like. . . .
1748
The Plenty of Water was not natural to the Place, but owing to its being kept up by Dams, the Work of the Beavers; which Animals had also built a House on the Side of this Creek.
3n.
a small structure usually built against a tree trunk or bank and used for housing bait, a trap for small animals being set inside the entrance.
See: trap house
Quotations
1965
For mink, fisher or marten Mr. Paquette makes a "house" of sticks and stones containing a bait of meat or fish, with the trap in the entrance.