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trade ((n.)) Fur Trade

• 1a n. a quantity of furs to be offered in return for goods or credit.

  • 1800  (1897)  The Crees had brought a good trade . . . three black bear skins and a few foxes

• 1b n. (attributive uses) designating articles or goods made or bought to be exchanged for furs.

  See also: trade ((n.))  trading goods  trading gun  

  • 1922  Trade candy, of colours dazzling to the eye, and black plug tobacco went far to break down their reserve.
  • 1922  The women wore native trousers of deerskin and parkas of trade cloth edged with red, blue, and yellow tapes with pewter beads and spoons and large Canadian pennies dangling and jingling from the ends of them.
  • 1941  The sashes collected among the Indians, in the past fifty years, form a group distinctly apart from the trade sashes of the Hudson's Bay Company.
  • 1953  . . . he . . . put the string on a flat rock, along with a fine hunting knife and a pound of trade tobacco.
  • 1964  With the appearance of the "trade kettle" on the scene, Indian mobility increased tremendously.

• 2 n. Nfld See 1964 quote.

  • 1828  (1964)  . . . the Trade had its commencement in this country about 24 years ago. . . .
  • 1964  The noun "trade" in old Newfoundland usage, not yet entirely dead, means commercial firm, e.g. Bowring's Trade for Bowring Brothers, Ltd.