DCHP-3

outfit number

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Fur Trade a number marked on all packages shipped as part of an outfit (def. la).

See: outfit ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1943
[This summer, all bales and boxes going to the Company posts from the Fur Trade depots bear the number 274--that is, the 274th outfit of trade goods sent out since the incorporation of the Company in 1670.]
1948
[The] bale is compressed and sewn up, and the post manager marks on it the outfit number . . . the district letter . . . and the post number.