DCHP-3

carrot

[< Cdn F carotte (de tabac)]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a bundle of carrot tobacco.

Quotations

1778
I gave him two gallons of rum, and a carrot of tobacco. . . .
1809
A common horse can be bought here [among the Blackfeet] for a carrot of tobacco, which weighs about three pounds, and costs in Canada four shillings.
1961
[Caption] Hudson's Bay Company traded many things to the Indians. Among the most popular items . . . were "carrots" . . . or packages of tobacco wrapped in cloth and twine. . . .
2n.

tobacco packaged in carrot-shaped bundles wrapped in cloth and twine, weighing about three pounds and about eighteen inches long, prominent among trade goods of the fur companies.

Quotations

1944
As more and more natives became cigarette smokers, carrot and twist (or "niggerhead") were going into the discard.