cavendish

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Etymology

Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.

Noun

cavendish (uncountable)

  1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
    • 1919, Richard Harding Davis, The Exiles and Other Stories‎:
      "But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.
    • 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I‎:
      No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "
    • 1896, anonymous author, The Ladies Book of Useful Information‎:
      Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.
    • 1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;‎:
      It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.
    • 1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City‎:
      Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."

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