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fur-trading
n.
trading in furs; the fur trade.
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fur trade
1880
 
This responsibility rests mainly upon the Indian hunters, while Dumas himself attends to fur-trading.
1896
 
This is the island, by-the-way, where in the earliest days of fur-trading the Northwest Company had its headquarters.
1964
 
. . . numerous fur-trading posts sprang up along the south-west shore of Hudson Bay. . . .