[f. STRIP v.1] pl. Tobacco-leaf with the stalk and midrib removed. Also strip-leaf.
1844. Rep. Sel. Comm. Tobacco Trade, Min. Evid., 232. The consequence of the permission which is given to import strips at the same duty as leaf is, that the stalks are exported from America to the Continent.
1845. G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., V. 133. ‘Strip-leaf’ … is the technical name for tobacco from which the stem of the leaf has been taken away before the latter is packed in the hogshead.
1904. Daily Chron., 6 May, 6/3. His whole imports in March were 133 hogsheads of ‘strips’ and nineteen hogsheads of leaf tobacco.
