DCHP-3

summer master

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person in charge of a trading post for the summer only.

See: summer man(def. 2)

Quotations

1913
Many of these journals were kept by a "summer master," who was quite often a very illiterate laborer, who could barely scrawl phonetics in the book during the real master's absence on the annual voyage to and from headquarters with the furs and for the outfit.