fur trader

plural fur traders

1. One who is engaged in the fur trade.

   Ross was a former fur trader who retired to the Red River Settlement with his Okanagan wife and their children.

   1986, C. Roderick Wilson, R. Bruce Morrison, Native Peoples, The Canadian Experience, page 318

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   "Does the white chief come to the great council of the Yemassees as a fur trader? Would he have skins for his coat?" was the reply.

   1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee, A Romance of Carolina, page 94

   From its founding St. Louis was both a market and an outfitting point for fur traders and explorers of the American West.

   1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 23, page 82

   Synonyms: furrier, peltmonger