DCHP-3

rum trade

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See: rum(def. 2a)

Quotations

1922
. . . Mr. Swanson had misunderstood my meaning, that "to drink with the Indians" was the common expression for a "rum trade" in which the Indian got the rum and his white brother got the furs.