peltry

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At such times the thrifty hunter who has an eye more to profit and prime peltry than to sport, goes forth armed only with an axe.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Governor Dongan seized the moment to promise better bargains for the peltry than the French could offer.

From The Road to Frontenac by Merwin, Samuel

Crow and Blackfoot and Sioux Indians often raided the brigades when on the home trip loaded with peltry.

From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Joseph St. Marie, of Vincennes, sent his clerk with a load of peltry to be traded to the Indians on the banks of the Mississippi.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

Then a husky-dog in bells and harness bounced up over the drifts, followed by another and yet another—eight or ten dogs to each long, low toboggan that slid along loaded and heaped with peltry.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)