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cartouche knife
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a kind of knife traded to the Indians by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1824
Donald Manson Dr. June 8th. To 1/2" Tobacco [,] To 1 Cartouch Knife. . . .
1862
He also took all the cartouche knives on hand.
1941
Cartouche knife. An all-purpose knife popular with the Indians.