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boater Fur Trade, Obs.

• n. a man other than a permanent employee, taken on for single trip with a brigade (def. 1).

  See also: brigade (def. 1)  tripman  

  • 1804  (1897)  Men not so difficult to hire this year as last, when boaters for Lower Red River refused 700 G.P.Cy. and milieux 500, with extra equipments.