smoking bag

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a soft leather pouch, usually decorated, used by the Indians of the old Northwest to carry flint-and-steel, tinder, tobacco, etc.

Quotations

1800

The Frenes wife (being Drunk) fell on a Knife she had in a smoaking bag at her girdle. . . .

1822

Here we borrowed a "smoking bag," containing a steel, flint, and tinder.