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fort hunter Fur Trade, Hist.

• a hunter, usually an Indian, employed by a fur company to provide meat for a fort.

  See also: fort trapper  hunter  Indian hunter  

  • 1820  (1938)  Our Fort Hunters have lived on Babiche and Leather for several days. . . .
  • 1822  (1940)  That all Servants employed as Fort Hunters, be allowed half the price that is given to Indians, and paid with goods out of the shop.
  • 1921  But before the fort-hunter had returned with the telescope, the snowy veil suddenly thinned and revealed the gray figure of a tripper coming up the bank.