burley

What it means

1. UScountableuncountableA tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.First known use late 19th c.

   The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley

   1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59

2. AustraliaNew ZealandcountableuncountablefishingBlood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.

   Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.

   2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania

   Synonyms: chum

In a sentence

The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley

1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59

Where it comes from

Unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.

First known use: late 19th c.