trust ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v. — Fur Trade, Obs.

extend credit to.

See: debt(def. 4)

Quotations

1774

This day I Trusted the Indians in all about 200 Beaver in Amanition and other Necessaries, to help support them Dureing the Winter.

1791

. . . he asked me to trust him a gun, blanket, and ammunition; but I refused him.