trading gun

Fur Trade, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1804

[He] told us he had but 15 trading pieces. . . .

1821

The Trading Guns (marked Wilson) are not to be compared with those of "Barnets" make which the N.W. Companies import. . . .