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fig 
n. a plug of tobacco, especially chewing tobacco, probably so called because it resembled a slab of dried figs.
- a1836 (1838) How are you off for tobacco? said Mr. Slick. Grand, said he, got half a fig left yet.
- 1880 The stakes were small, usually a fig of tobacco.
- 1956 "All I can offer you right now is a chaw off my fig o' tobacca."
- a1836 (1838) How are you off for tobacco? said Mr. Slick. Grand, said he, got half a fig left yet.