DCHP-2
trading store DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Fur Trade
the room in a trading post (def. 1) where the actual bartering takes place.
See also: trade store trading post (def. 1) trading room
- 1856 This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .
- 1957 Save for such innovations as the radio and the outboard motor and a grater variety of merchandise in the two trading stores, the people live much the same life as they have done for generations.
2
a store operated by a private merchant who engages in a certain amount of barter, usually in a frontier community.
See also: trading post (def. 2)
- 1880 A small single-storied dwelling made of hewn logs, little better than the rude farm-house of a Canadian backwoodsman, a trading-store as plain as the dwelling, a smoke-house for curing and storing fish and meat, and a stable constitute the whole establishment.
- 1909 The settlement boasts two churches, two mission schools, and two trading stores. . . .
- 1856 This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .