DCHP-3

trade gun

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a type of muzzle-loader prominent among the trading goods of the fur companies.

Quotations

1896
The Indians' guns were of the pattern known in the country as "trade guns." They were of small bore, long, single- or double-barrelled, muzzle-loaders of light weight.
1921
. . . the old-time "trade gun" (which came to be a primary item in an Indian trapper's equipment). . . .