wintering post

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trading post used only in winter.

Quotations

1913

Of the above some were only wintering posts, abandoned for the summer.

1953

Qu'Appelle Fort was established sometime after 1885 or soon after as a wintering post or outpost from Fort Ellice. . . .