slooper

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a Hudson's Bay Company employee engaged as a skipper for a sailing craft operated by Eskimo crews for local tripping around Hudson Bay.

Quotations

1784

I am afraid I shall not be able to supply the Sloopers with their Summer's Stock for I shall have no Indians here to Hunt this Spring.

1939

. . . the Company brought out Orkneymen as sloopers, carpenters, and coopers.

2n.

a crewman on such a vessel.

1843

That from & after the close of the Current Outfit, the Wages of Mechanics on new Engagements will be as follows. Sloopers £23 Stg.

1913

. . . all the steerage passengers were obliged to assist on deck, while those engaged as " sloopers"--seamen--. . . berthed with the crew. . . .

1913

That year [1867] all the sloopers . . . had been drafted for service at the Moose Factory.