DCHP-3

roll tobacco

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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large tobacco leaves twisted into a rope one inch in diameter and then wound into a large (70 lb.) roll and sold by the inch or foot.

Quotations

1684
. . . to Bespeake of Mr. Lassells the whole quantity of role tobacco that is to be Shipt of the Next Expedition.
1743
Let the young men have Roll tobacco cheap. . . .
1811
Ignace, carrying two rolls of Tobacco, preferred wading across the brook to passing on a single tree; when almost across he stumbled; the rolls of Tobacco fell (each seventy pounds) and were swept away by the current.
1929
One and a half feet of Canadian roll tobacco sold for one . . . made-beaver.