Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Cut into fine pieces or strips: as, fine-cut chewing-tobacco.

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Examples

  • The maker of Lambert & Butler, Davidoff, Gauloises Blondes, Gitanes Blondes and JPS cigarettes said price increases and a strong performance from fine-cut tobacco more than offset a challenging economic environment, and said its investment priority is to build its position in growth markets such as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

    Strong Sales Lift Imperial Tobacco's Results Simon Zekaria 2010

  • The laird's thick brows rose slightly, and a smile curved the fine-cut lips.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The truly privileged ones are probably attired in military fur-lined overcoats and fur caps from home, but the majority go about in civilian blouses and jackets and trousers, the most unfortunate in the same blue fine-cut suits in which they arrived, trusting that they would soon be changing into uniform.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • I accepted the offer, jumping with joy, and on the way home I had a pipe of fresh, fine-cut plug every evening.

    The South Pole~ At the Pole 2009

  • She took out a small silver spoon and used two scoops, snorting the fine-cut coke.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • What jeweler has flashing gems like your eyes, fine-cut diamonds which millennia have chiseled, sparkling like Orion?

    Sjoerd Spanninga [Jan Dijkstra] greenintegerblog 2008

  • She took out a small silver spoon and used two scoops, snorting the fine-cut coke.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • She took out a small silver spoon and used two scoops, snorting the fine-cut coke.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • I accepted the offer, jumping with joy, and on the way home I had a pipe of fresh, fine-cut plug every evening.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • Unsealing the four packages, and carefully filling the Stamboul pipe with some fine-cut, reddish-yellow Turkish tobacco, I applied

    Youth 2003

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