Definition of "roll of tobacco" []

• Tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But when a great burly six feet of masculinity with sloping shoulders and unkempt beard swaggers in, and, throwing a roll of tobacco into one corner of his jaw, growls out at me over the paper I am reading, "Here gurl," (I am past thirty) "you better git out 'n dis kyar' f yer don't, I'll put yer out," -- my mental annotation is Here's an American citizen who has been badly trained."