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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
among Indians, one who has gone through a ceremony of mixing blood with another person and is therefore considered his brother.
See: blood brother
Quotations
1905
A pole, held at each end by a blood-friend of the deceased husband, was placed across her back under her hands, and she was hoisted into the fire at its fiercest and withdrawn, usually of course much burnt and disfigured.