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furrier

• 1 n. Esp. Nfld a person who hunts or traps fur-bearing animals.

  See also: fur hunter  

  • 1770  (1792)  In our return we found two old furriers' tilts, and snow death-falls; which appeared to be of Canadian construction.
  • 1829  As yet, she has been viewed only by the eyes of lumberers and furriers, the former with their hatchets, the latter with their guns.
  • 1918  (n.d.)  One day a Northern furrier . . . came to me as a magistrate to insist that a trading company keep its bargain by paying him in cash for a valuable fox skin.
  • 1962  . . . the hostile action . . . may well have been due to Beothuk suspicion of their inveterate foes, the white furriers, several of whom accompanied Buchan as guides

• 2 n. Obs. a person engaged in the fur trade.

  • 1789  It is therefore not improbable that the enterprising spirit of our Canadian furriers may penetrate to this coast . . . and add to the comforts and luxuries of Europe, this invaluable fur, which in warmth, beauty, and magnificence, exceeds the richest furs of Siberia.
  • 1860  The ex-chief factor is characterized as a "Governor in whom the people of British Columbia have never placed confidence,"--as controlled in his public and private course by the interests of the "Furriers,"--and as eminently qualified to "retire from public life."