niggerhead tobacco

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a slender, twisted plug of tobacco once common in the old Northwest.

Quotations

1860

After that I would smoke half a plug of "nigger-head tobacco."

1910

A chaw of niggerhead tobaccer'd be more in his line.

1936

It is probably the lineal descendant of the nigger-head tobacco used in the Indian trade years ago, and as it came in ropes it was sold by the inch.