wintering partner cf. Cdn F hivernant, q.v. Fur Trade, Hist.
1 a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
See also: agent (def. 2) bourgeois (def. 2a) master pedlar North West Company partner proprietor winterer (def. 2b)
2 a comparable officer in the Hudson's Bay Company. See 1905 quote.
See also: bourgeois (def. 2b) winterer (def. 2c)