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fur-runner Fur Trade 
n. Fur Trade a company employee, often an Indian, who made fur-buying trips to the Indian hunting camps in the forest.
See also: runner ((2))
- 1921 They chopped a hole and, after placing the fish in, filled it up with water, which they allowed to freeze, with the tail of a single fish protruding, in order to show the fur-runner what was cached below.
- 1934 The Indian [c1894] now told Mackenzie that he wanted him to send the "fur runners" to him with supplies in ten weeks' time. . . .
- 1936 The freighter and the fur runner found travel possible and profitable in this season as in no other.
- 1921 They chopped a hole and, after placing the fish in, filled it up with water, which they allowed to freeze, with the tail of a single fish protruding, in order to show the fur-runner what was cached below.