DCHP-1 Online

blood brother

• among Indians, one who has gone through a ceremony of mixing blood with another person and is therefore considered his brother.

  See also: blood-friend  brother  

  • 1919  I know Standing Bear; he made me a blood brother of his.
  • 1954  Henry hid under a pile of hides, and even with the help of a blood brother Indian barely escaped scalping.