returns

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.pl.

See 1963 quote.

See: outfit ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1694

[I] shall be more able to yive you a large Epistle y^e next Return hoping to receive a line or two from your honour. . . .

1761

Here [Michilimackinac], the outfits are prepared . . . and here, the returns, in furs, are collected and embarked for Montréal.

1908

. . . there was still much work to be done in the way of transport of outfit and returns between Anderson and Fort Good Hope. . . .

1963

"Returns" was the opposite of "Outfit," and was the generic name for furs, and all trade results which were returned to the Old Country in exchange.