DCHP-3

trading outfit

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the annual shipment of trading goods and supplies sent by a fur company to its trading posts collectively; also, any part of this shipment dispatched to or received by any particular post.

See: outfit ((n.))(def. 1a)

Quotations

1852
Their Vessel . . . had $1500 on board in Gold and Silver and a complete trading outfit. . . .
1957
York . . . forwarded into the interior the trading outfits brought to its vast warehouse by sea from London.