DCHP-1 Online
end-man Fur Trade, Obs. 
n. one of the two paddlers occupying either the bow or the stern of a canoe.
- 1761 (1901) Skilful men, at double the wages of the rest, are placed in the head and stern. . . . They engage . . . the middle-men at one hundred and fifty livres and the end-men at three hundred livres, each.
- 1761 (1901) Skilful men, at double the wages of the rest, are placed in the head and stern. . . . They engage . . . the middle-men at one hundred and fifty livres and the end-men at three hundred livres, each.