pitching-off debt

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the debt (def. 1) run up by a trapper at airading post before leaving for the hunting grounds.

See: debt(def. 1),pitch off(def. 1)

Quotations

1956

I showed him [an Indian] his account and told him that with his "pitching off" debt he would owe not less than a thousand dollars.