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packet man
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
one of the men making up a packet (def. 2).
Quotations
1779
. . . no Packet having been received . . . began to get my things in readiness to proceed . . . being fearfull now of waiting any longer for the Packet men. . . .
1896
I reached the post the next day and learned that the returned packet men had heard that two buffaloes had been killed by the Smith Indians in the fall.
1938
I left York Factory with the packet-men on my way Outside for medical attention. . . .