whisky runner

West, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.

Quotations

1890

Sergeant Fones, he dreams perhaps Old Aleck sells whisky against the law to men you call whisky runners, sometimes to Indians and half-breeds. . . .

1927

Whiskey-runners had conjectured that the Crees on Lake Winnipeg would prove a soft thing.