Spencer's twist

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of tobacco that was prominent among the trading goods carried by the fur traders.

Quotations

1794

The fifteen men sent to Pine Fort returned with 4 rolls Brazil tobacco, 1 roll Spencer's twist. . . .

1800

I gave a roll of Spencer's Twist Tobacco . . . with Mr. McDonell's cheese to his two men. . . .

1912

Packs of furs went up the main way and loads of merchandise went down . . . guns . . . and many a foot of Spencer's Twist at one beaver a foot. . . .