wintering house

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trading post used only in winter.

Quotations

1806

"We . . . came to the old wintering houses of 1801-02, at the White Mud."

1850

Other traders have wintering-houses in this neighbourhood, on the west side of a low promontory, from ten to thirteen miles long.

1934

. . . at holiday festivities held in wintering houses in the heart of the Indian country.