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Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a pack of goods or furs weighing about 90 pounds.
See: piece
Quotations
1800
I gave out to all their respective loading, which consisted of 28 packages per canoe, assorted for the Salteur trade on Red River. . . .
1922
Each package weighed ninety pounds, and was constructed as near as possible to fit on either side of a pack saddle.
2n.
a bundle of furs, usually 90 pounds, especially one baled in a pack press, and tagged and numbered as to contents and year.
Quotations
1894
. . . it was not uncommon in some of the passes of New Caledonia to see a train of two hundred horses, each laden with two packages of furs, winding with the narrow trail round cliffs and through passes, on their way to canoe navigation.