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fish post Fur Trade, Hist.

• a northern post where the principal food was fish and where fish were caught for supplying to other posts.

  See also: deer post  fishing post (def. 2)  meat post  

  • 1821  (1938)  The same precaution [to have an adequate supply of twine] is applicable to all our fish posts.
  • 1938  Whitefish were the usual mainstay of the "Fish Posts" in the interior.