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Indian rum
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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brandy, rum, whisky, or high wines (often diluted and sometimes spiced with pepper, Tabasco, tobacco, or weak acids) traded to the Indians.
Quotations
1768-82
. . . having a very small portion of rum, and no prospect of encreasing my stock; I was therefore obliged to dilute it so as to make it about one-fifth part weaker than usual, which made twenty gallons of very passable Indian rum.
1793
Mixed nine Gallons of Indian rum[,] it being customary for Bourgeois to wet the whistle of every Indian they meet on the way.
1835
We were induced to offer a blanket i gall: Ind. Rum & a head of tobacco per beaver. . . .
1944
"Indian rum" was rum diluted with water.