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Webster 1913 Edition

(răp-pē′)

Noun.

[F.

râpé

, fr.

râper

to grate, to rasp. See

Verb.

]

A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.

Noun.

A coarse kind of snuff.

rappee ‎(countable and uncountable, plural rappees)

A dark, coarse, strongly flavored snuff.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 35
  ‘Why, it is difficult, sir, I confess,’ said the tall footman. ‘It may be done by degrees, Sir. Coffee is the best practice. I carried coffee, Sir, for a long time. It looks very like rappee, sir.’