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Hudson's Bay See note at Hudson Bay.

• 1a

  See also: Hudson's Bay Company  

  • 1912  All us Liveyeres owed to the Hudson Bay. . . .
  • 1958  As the loss of life mounted, the old people claimed the Hudson's Bay had put germs in the sugar to kill off the Indians

• 1b (attributive uses) of or associated with the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • 1793  (1933)  The Hu[d]son's Bay Party is here with us.
  • 1873  (1904)  Spanker and his six companions here passed from my hands, and remained at St. John's to idle through the approaching summer, and then to take their places as Hudson Bay hauling-dogs.
  • 1934  . . . members of the staff [were] all wearing their best suits and nautical caps decorated with Hudson's Bay badges.
  • 1966  When he sensed the overburdening opinion of Hudson's Bay men in the Island legislature, he plumped for reform.

• 2 an officer or servant of the Hudson's Bay Company.

  • 1893  (1908)  ". . . If he isn't, we're all wrong, Virginie. Could the Hudson Bays have interfered with him, I wonder?" and the factor knitted his brow perplexedly.

• 3 a durable woollen blanket long sold by the Hudson's Bay Company.

  See also: Hudson's Bay blanket (def. 1a)  

  • 1920  I sat there wrapped up in one of Dunky-Dunk's four-point Hudson-Bays. . . .
  • 1953  
    The stranger smiles and then he says:
    "Why, them is four point Hudson Bays!
    I hated to leave them back down there,
    They're worth 'bout eighteen bucks a pair."