pitch in

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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bring in a season's fur catch to a post for crediting against debt (def. 1); visit a post to replenish supplies.

Quotations

1934

As soon as the Indians had all "pitched in" we packed the furs and pressed them into ninety-pound bales for convenience in transportation.

1956

There would be the Christmas and the Easter seasons, the season when our trapping families "pitched-in" to the post.