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fall hunt Fur Trade 
1 the period of hunting and trapping before winter sets in.
- 1783 (1954) I am sorry I have to Echo back your Complaints of Geese this Fall necessity having obliged me almost all the Season to serve the Men salt Geese the remains of [the] last fall Hunt.
- 1896 (1898) Since they had given up the fall hunt, owing to the severity of the season, it became the more necessary that they should succeed in the spring.
- 1921 The Indians divide their annual hunt for fur into three distinct hunting seasons: the fall hunt--from autumn until Christmas; the winter hunt--from New Year's Day until Easter; and the spring hunt--from Easter until the hunters depart for their tribal summer camping ground.
2 n. the furs taken in this period.
- 1907 . . . hunters . . . will sell their fall hunts less a skin. This reserved skin may be only a musquash. They keep this . . . to draw other skins when next they go trapping.
- 1783 (1954) I am sorry I have to Echo back your Complaints of Geese this Fall necessity having obliged me almost all the Season to serve the Men salt Geese the remains of [the] last fall Hunt.