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winter outpost Fur Trade, Hist.

• a trading post in the interior; especially a temporary trading station dependent on a larger and more permanent post.

  See also: outpost (def. 1)  

  • 1913  Fort Ellice had a regular winter outpost at Riding Mountain, besides flying posts wherever the buffalo were numerous. . . .
  • 1956  The red [thumbtacks] represent the Company's permanent, year-round establishments; the blue ones, the winter posts and outposts.