Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for packing granulated tobacco into bags or boxes for commercial purposes.
- noun A press for condensing and compacting plug tobacco in tubs or boxes.
- noun A machine for pressing booked and wrapped tobacco-leaves flat, so that they will lie compactly when packed.
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The writer has even seen a little tobacco-press ingeniously adapted for the purpose of extracting the butter, the invention of Mr. J.H. H.rt, of the Trinidad Botanical
The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head
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