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trade ((n.))
Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an.
a quantity of furs to be offered in return for goods or credit.
Quotations
1800
The Crees had brought a good trade . . . three black bear skins and a few foxes
1bn.
(attributive uses) designating articles or goods made or bought to be exchanged for furs.
Quotations
1922
The women wore native trousers of deerskin and parkas of trade cloth edged with red, blue, and yellow tapes with pewter beads and spoons and large Canadian pennies dangling and jingling from the ends of them.
1922
Trade candy, of colours dazzling to the eye, and black plug tobacco went far to break down their reserve.
1941
The sashes collected among the Indians, in the past fifty years, form a group distinctly apart from the trade sashes of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1953
. . . he . . . put the string on a flat rock, along with a fine hunting knife and a pound of trade tobacco.
1964
With the appearance of the "trade kettle" on the scene, Indian mobility increased tremendously.
2n. — Nfld
See 1964 quote.
Quotations
1828
. . . the Trade had its commencement in this country about 24 years ago. . . .
1964
The noun "trade" in old Newfoundland usage, not yet entirely dead, means commercial firm, e.g. Bowring's Trade for Bowring Brothers, Ltd.