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Nor'West gun
Fur Trade, Hist.
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n.
a light musket carried as trading goods by the North West Company.
See: Northwest gun
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1907
The outfit mostly consisted of tobacco, powder, ball, flints, possibly one or two nor'west guns, white, blue and red strouds for the men's leggings, sky blue second cloth for the squaws' skirts. . . .