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Webster 1913 Edition


Tobacconing

To-bac′co-ning

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Noun.
Smoking tobacco.
[Obs.]
Tobacconing is but a smoky play.”
[Obs.]
Sylvester.

Definition 2024


tobacconing

tobacconing

English

Verb

tobacconing

  1. (obsolete, rare) smoking tobacco
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      Neither was it any news upon this Guild-day, to have the Cathedral, now open on all sides, to be filled with musketeers, waiting for the Major's return; drinking and tobacconing as freely, as if it had turned ale-house.
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