DCHP-1 Online

smoking bag Obs.

• a soft leather pouch, usually decorated, used by the Indians of the old Northwest to carry flint-and-steel, tinder, tobacco, etc.

  See also: fire-bag  

  • 1800  (1933)  The Frenes wife (being Drunk) fell on a Knife she had in a smoaking bag at her girdle. . . .
  • 1822  (1932)  Here we borrowed a "smoking bag," containing a steel, flint, and tinder.