DCHP-1 Online
outfit number Fur Trade 
Fur Trade a number marked on all packages shipped as part of an outfit (def. la).
See also: outfit ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1943 [This summer, all bales and boxes going to the Company posts from the Fur Trade depots bear the number 274--that is, the 274th outfit of trade goods sent out since the incorporation of the Company in 1670.]
- 1948 [The] bale is compressed and sewn up, and the post manager marks on it the outfit number . . . the district letter . . . and the post number.
- 1943 [This summer, all bales and boxes going to the Company posts from the Fur Trade depots bear the number 274--that is, the 274th outfit of trade goods sent out since the incorporation of the Company in 1670.]