DCHP-3

trading rum

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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brandy, rum, whisky, or high wines (often diluted and sometimes spiced with pepper, Tabasco, tobacco, or weak acids) traded to the Indians.

Quotations

1878
The Indians of Edmonton . . . have succeeded in manufacturing beverage that will make them drunk and just as sick as the old fashioned trading rum or any other liquor as formerly compounded and sold to them.