second

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Fur Trade

the clerk next senior to the factor of a post.

See: factor

Quotations

1913

All were placed at table in order of seniority, we apprentice clerks being . . . near the foot, where the kindly "second" . . . presided. . . .

2n.

the second-in-command of an Indian band.