barter n Attrib barter shop: small shop where goods can be obtained in exchange for fish and other produce.
   1909 BROWNE 259 These institutions [barter shops], which are known all over the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, are not usually very pretentious establishments, but they do considerable trade, as they are furnished with all sorts of commodities for fishing and household purposes; and you may procure anything from a puncheon of molasses to a skein of thread. [They] do little cash business, but they exchange their wares for fish, salmon, furs. 1944 LAWTON & DEVINE 12 [He] had established small barter shops in the settlements surrounding King's Cove, and it was a usual occurrence to see him start off after midnight on horse-back on a tour of inspection of these barter shops. P 54-67 ~ a small shop where cash and dried fish would be exchanged, on a small scale, for goods; a chapman's shop.

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