DCHP-1 Online
whisky runner West, Hist. 
a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.
See also: permit runner whisky trader
- 1890 (1929) Sergeant Fones, he dreams perhaps Old Aleck sells whisky against the law to men you call whisky runners, sometimes to Indians and half-breeds. . . .
- 1927 Whiskey-runners had conjectured that the Crees on Lake Winnipeg would prove a soft thing.
- 1890 (1929) Sergeant Fones, he dreams perhaps Old Aleck sells whisky against the law to men you call whisky runners, sometimes to Indians and half-breeds. . . .