DCHP-1 Online

debt Fur Trade

• 1 n. credit extended to hunters and trappers in the form of supplies to be paid for out of the coming year's catch.

  See also: credit  grubstake ((n.)) (def. 2)  trust ((n.))  

• 2a n. Obs. the supplies advanced.

• 2b n. the value of such supplies; the amount owing.

• 3 v. get (or take) debt, obtain credit for supplies to be paid for out of the coming season's catch.

• 4 v. give debt, extend credit in the form of supplies to trappers who will pay out of the coming season's catch.

  See also: trust ((v.))