e/Engagé

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has gloss	eng: A French 18th- to 19th-century term denoting a man, usually French-Canadian, engaged, ie, employed, with the promise of a steady salary to canoe (or row a boat) and handle all transportation aspects of river and lake-chain travel (maintenance, loading and unloading, propelling, steering, portaging, camp set-up, maps, interaction with Native American people, etc.) in the North American frontier, particularly within the fur trade. Also applied to the men who staffed the pirogues on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Compare with the merchant voyageur and sea-faring sailor.
lexicalization	eng: Engagé
instance of	c/Marine occupations