subs. (old).—Tobacco (GROSE). Hence SOTWEED-DEALER and SOTWEED-PLANTER.

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  d. 1704.  T. BROWN, Works, I. 126, ‘The Highlander, a Satire.’

          When the stew’d SOTWEED in his Mouth has lain
So long, till spitting does its virtues drain.

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  1705.  WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, I. 2, 22. I scarce had fill’d a pipe of SOTWEED, And by the Candle made it Hotweed.

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  1708.  EBENEZER COOKE, The SOT-WEED Factor, 2.

        These SOT-WEED Planters Crowd the Shoar.
    Ibid. (1730), SOTWEED Redivivus, 9.
When aged Roan, not us’d to falter,
If you remember, slipt his Halter;
Left SOTWEED Factor in the Lurch.

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