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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in Indian parlance, a pistol, musket, rifle, etc.
Quotations
1965
Long, long ago, according to the legend, many years before the white man came to shatter the silence of the wilderness with his thunder stick, a band of Indian huntsmen came upon a great animal foraging along the shore of a lake far to the north and west of the sweet-water sea that is now called Lake Superior.