cavendish

alternative Cavendish

1. uncountableLeaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

   "But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.

   1919, Richard Harding Davis, The Exiles and Other Stories

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   No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "

   1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I

   Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.

   1896, anonymous author, The Ladies Book of Useful Information

   It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.

   1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;

   Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."

   1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City

plural Cavendishes

1. countableuncountableA surname transferred from the place name.

   Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish.

   1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders

2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
3. A number of places in Canada:
   1. countableuncountableA locality in Alberta.
   2. countableuncountableA local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
   3. countableuncountableA community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
   4. countableuncountableA rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
5. countableuncountableA town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
6. countableuncountableA township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

plural Cavendishes

1. countableThe most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.

   Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.

   2018, Chris Fitch, Globalography: Our Interconnected World revealed in 50 Maps, page 10

   Synonyms: Chinese banana, dwarf banana

2. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”).