Sot-weed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sot-weed is a noun meaning (now rare) tobacco.
Meaning
(now rare) tobacco.
Example Sentences
The Sot-Weed Factor [title]
John Rolfe toiled over his tobacco plants, spending four years perfecting the cultivation and curing of his “sot weed”
the effects of smoking sotweed... Depressions would produce modest efforts to diversify the economy but as soon as tobacco prices rose again, planters returned to “sotweed making”.
These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo.
Word Forms
- sot-weeds
- sotweed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include weed, pipeweed, tabacco, skunkweed, returns, billygoat-weed.
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