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blood brother

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a blood brother
a man who has promised to treat another man as his brother, often in a ceremony in which they cut themselves and mix their blood together. We were blood brothers - I was ready to die for him.
See also: blood, brother


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And then, and then, they gave me nuts and pleasant things to eat, and they--they carried me in their arms up to the top of the trees and said I was their blood brother except that I had no tail, and should be their leader some day.
 
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