winter outpost

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trading post in the interior; especially a temporary trading station dependent on a larger and more permanent post.

See: outpost(def. 1)

Quotations

1913

Fort Ellice had a regular winter outpost at Riding Mountain, besides flying posts wherever the buffalo were numerous. . . .

1956

The red [thumbtacks] represent the Company's permanent, year-round establishments; the blue ones, the winter posts and outposts.