beetel nut

plural beetel nuts

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of betel nut.

   The total exports to Calcutta for the same year amounted to sicca rupees 3,57,126, of which the following articles were, pepper, 1,14,121; tin, 1,11,740; gold dust, 51,600; beetel nut, 37,755; rattans, 19,400.

   1853, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence, Volume 35, page 648

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   The grand articles of the interior trade of Bengal were salt, beetel-nut, and tobacco; of which salt was out of all proportion the most important: Tobacco in particular was so inconsiderable, that few, if any, of the Company's servants had engaged in it.

   1840, James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson, The History of British India, Volume 3, James Madden, page 364

   The Malays use the seeds of the Beetel nut, pounded into a paste mixed with lime, which they use in the same manner as this is used by our Hidas, by chewing or simply keeping in the mouth between the teeth and the cheek.

   1897, Antiquarian, Landon., page 175