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small furs

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the pelts of small animals, such as mink, fox, squirrel, and wolverine.

See: great furs

Quotations

1682

. . . wee now againe repeate that you Use your Utmost endeavors to procure as many small furrs of all sorts as you can, for they turne us to a good account. . . .

1743

Ho! what they are all small fur's I suppose.

1832

Small Furs, have failed, and Indians . . . suffered much from starvation.

1835

Since he went off . . . he has traded about 450 beaver & land Otters beside some small furs. . . .