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roll tobacco Hist. 
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.
- 1684 (1946) . . . to Bespeake of Mr. Lassells the whole quantity of role tobacco that is to be Shipt of the Next Expedition.
- 1743 (1949) Let the young men have Roll tobacco cheap. . . .
- 1811 (1916) 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.
- 1684 (1946) . . . to Bespeake of Mr. Lassells the whole quantity of role tobacco that is to be Shipt of the Next Expedition.