DCHP-1 Online

pitching-off debt Fur Trade

• the debt (def. 1) run up by a trapper at airading post before leaving for the hunting grounds.

  See also: debt (def. 1)  pitch off (def. 1)  

  • 1956  I showed him [an Indian] his account and told him that with his "pitching off" debt he would owe not less than a thousand dollars.