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Brewer's: Coasting Trade

Trade between ports of the same country carried on by coasting vessels. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Coasting WaiterCoasting Lead A B C D E F G H…

Brewer's: Roaring Trade

He drives a roaring trade. He does a great business; his employees are driven till all their wind is gone. Hence fast, quick. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Trade Mark

A mark adopted by a manufacturer to distinguish his productions from those made by other persons. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Trade WindsTrade A B C…

Brewer's: Trade Winds

Winds that trade or tread in one uniform track. In the northern hemisphere they blow from the north-east, and in the southern hemisphere from the south-east, about thirty degrees each side…

Brewer's: Fair Trade

Smuggling. “Neither Dirk Hatteraick nor any of his sailors, all well known men in the fair trade, were again seen upon that coast.” —SirWalterScott: Guy Mannering, chap. x. Latterly the…

Brewer's: Free Trade

The Apostle of Free Trade. Richard Cobden (1804-65). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894FreebooterFree Spirit A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

Online Trading Websites

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coureurs de bois

(Encyclopedia) coureurs de boiscoureurs de boisk&oomacr;rörˈ də bwä [key] [Fr.,=woods runners], unlicensed traders during the French regime in Canada. Traders were required to be licensed, but to…

Bent, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Bent, Charles, 1799–1847, American frontiersman, b. St. Louis. He entered the fur trade of the Missouri River and became one of the mountain men. His interests turned to the Southwest…

Pynchon, William

(Encyclopedia) Pynchon, William, c.1590–1662, American colonist and theologian, b. England. An original patentee and assistant in the Massachusetts Bay Company, he migrated to America in 1630, where…