DCHP-1 Online
black tobacco Obs. 
a strong, dark tobacco once sold by the Hudson's Bay Co.
See also: Brazil tobacco
- 1691 (1929) [He] emptyed part of it into a leather Bagg so I put one hatchet 2 fathom of Black Tobacco 6 knives . . . into the rundlett. . . .
- 1743 . . . give us good (brazl. tobacco) black tobacco, moist & hard twisted.
- 1799 (1934) . . . the Indians had taken from them . . . 5 Cwt of black Tobacco (which is made in imitation of the Honourable Company's but is much smaller).
- 1691 (1929) [He] emptyed part of it into a leather Bagg so I put one hatchet 2 fathom of Black Tobacco 6 knives . . . into the rundlett. . . .