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niggerhead
noun- tobacco, twisted into a plug US, 1843
- Groceries – particularly tea and “niggerhead” (a trade tobacco for smoking and chewing) – are his more necessary “luxuries.” — Charles Crate, We Speak for the Silent, p. 3, 1956
- an eight-gallon milk can CANADA
- In Quebec’s Eastern Townships, a nigger head was the eight-gallon milk can. In others, it means (as in the US) a head-sized hummock in moist pasture land, a “moss hump.” — Lewis Poteet, Talking Country, p. 57, 1992
- a tuft of grass US, 1859
- — Robert O. Bowen, An Alaskan Dictionary, p. 23, 1965
- in lobstering, a winch head US
- — Kendall Merriam, The Illustrated Dictionary of Lobstering, p. 61, 1978
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