DCHP-3

storekeeper

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

the owner of a store or shop.

Quotations

1834
The first is confined almost entirely to storekeepers and married men in old and well settled townships. . . .
1836
The storekeeper in Canada holds a very different rank from the shopkeeper of the English village. The storekeepers are the merchants and bankers of the places in which they reside.
2n.

the man in charge of a fur company ' s trading post.

See: trader(def. 3)

Quotations

1856
This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .
1923
I tell you, those H.B. storekeepers don't have an easy time of it.
1966
He wonders what happened to the storekeeper who used to help him with anything he wanted, especially nets, shells.