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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.
Quotations
1761
The freight of a canoe . . . consist of sixty pieces, or packages of merchandize, of the weight of from ninety to a hundred pounds each.
1840
All their aim is to get through the voyage as quick as possible their cry is the D----l take the hindermost helter, skelter, bing, bang, the pieces here & there on the portage, pieces containing the most brittle ware are as tenderly dashed on the rocks' as two or three pieces of bar iron fasted together.
1874
Shipped the Battle River furs, amounting to 22 pieces. . . .
1965
. . . it takes but little imagination to see the colourfully dressed voyageurs packing their heavy "pièces" . . . along the rocky river bank.
2n.
See quote.
Quotations
1941
Piece . . . At some posts . . . referred to the number of skins a hunter brought in.