Chapter 21, Item 39a
Tobacco types
Sorts of Tobacco.
Pig taile, is a very small wreath or roll tobacco.
Prick tobacco, thick roll all made vp together without any wreathing.
Spanish tobacco, the wreath about a finger thickness.
Nova, the thickest wreath.
Barmodos, a wreath Tobacco.
Barbadoes, in wreaths.
Antago.
Mavis.
Virginia, leafe Tobacco.
Merry land, leafe Tobacco.
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Chapter 21, Item 39b
Tobacco terms
Termes used by Tobacconists.
Strip it, is take all the stalks away from the leaues.
Butting the end stalks way.
Put it in case.
Mollify it, is to bring it into right temper for roulling or cutting.
Trunk it, is to make it in Order for the boxes.
Box mold it.
Press it.
Box it.
Press it in the boxes.
Put it vnder the engine, to cut it on way.
Press it againe.
Cut it againe, this cuting makes it a square cutt.
Empty it into the cooler or sifting board.
Dry it.
Sift it.
Dust it, to sift it through a fine sive that none but the dust shall goe through.
Remaine, or Grubings, or Returnes, is what remaines in the sive after sifting.
Well cured, is well ordered.
High cased, is haveing much virtue in it.
Low cased, or low conditioned, is when it is dry without moisture.
Spinning, is make Tobacco leaves into long rolles; which is by foure kind of wayes of spining it, by rolleing it on the table, or Wheele Head, or vnder Hand, or Over hand.
Roll it by Gage, to make the roll such or such a Thickness and not to exceed it.
Filler, is the inside of the Roll: which is any sorts of Leaves and Stalks.
Wrapper, the out side of the roll, which are good leaves.
Peging and Basses, is to make the end rolls fast on, that they slip not off.
Pressing of Nova and Barbades Wreaths.
Wreath, is the Roll as it spun.
Roll of Tobacco, is the Wreath turned about to such a length, and then to turn it ouer againe for which thickness you please.
Roll of 3. 4. 5. 6. &c. wreath thick, is the roll to haue so many wreaths or Ropes wound on vpon an other.
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