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1615 R. Hamor True Disc. Present Estate Virginia 36 What present reliefe he hath don to the Colony, furnishing vs by two trading voyages, with three and twenty hundred bushels of Corne.

a1650 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 221 He had order to procure a patente for a fitt trading place in y^e river of Kenebeck.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 273 To put into the first trading Port.

1730 Evening Post 6 Oct. The Nation of the Cherrokees shall on their Part take Care to keep the Trading Path clean.

1735 Gen. Evening Post 20 Nov. A Person, who..was out on a Trading Journey with the Indians.

1774 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 440/2 A gentleman was sent by him to make observations.., in order to find a place proper for a trading station in those parts.

1791 W. Hewerdine Compl. Coll. Convivial Songs 44 For some succeed, and others fail, That into commerce enter, So few are chaste, and many frail, In this great trading Centre.

1805 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 8 July The trading route..is known to be in constant practice.

1850 Bell's Life in London 7 Apr. 2/4 If France stood in the same trading relationship to England as the States do.

1883 E. W. Howe Country Town xv. 84 I had never been to Twin Mounds, as there was a post-office and a small trading place several miles nearer.

1922 L. E. Elliott Chile Today & Tomorrow x. 241 The trade representative..pays the normal trading tax imposed on all businesses.

1951 D. E. A. Wallace & R. P. Bagnall-Oakeley Norfolk vii. 84 The old villages..began as trading places for the eel-fishers, the reed-men and the smugglers from the sea.

1975 Forbes 15 Jan. 56/2 This all adds up to nervousness and low trading volume in the stock market this year.

2003 Mirror (Nexis) 17 May 36 Dubai was once a sleepy trading port on the Persian Gulf.

2013 M. Motland Chestnut Creek Saga vi. 60 It takes about a week to hike the old trading path.