black tobacco

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a strong, dark tobacco once sold by the Hudson's Bay Co.

Quotations

1691

[He] emptyed part of it into a leather Bagg so I put one hatchet 2 fathom of Black Tobacco 6 knives . . . into the rundlett. . . .

1743

. . . give us good (brazl. tobacco) black tobacco, moist & hard twisted.

1799

. . . the Indians had taken from them . . . 5 Cwt of black Tobacco (which is made in imitation of the Honourable Company's but is much smaller).