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Definition of Coffin nail
1. Noun. Finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking.
Terms within: Cigarette Butt
Specialized synonyms: Cubeb, Cubeb Cigarette, Filter-tipped Cigarette, Joint, Marijuana Cigarette, Reefer, Spliff, Stick
Generic synonyms: Roll Of Tobacco, Smoke
Definition of Coffin nail
1. Noun. (slang) cigarette ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coffin Nail
Literary usage of Coffin nail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Princeton Verse by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1904)
"... and fret, And call thee coffin-nail ; and yet 'Tis joy through all eternity
to feel That down here in my grave thou'rt near me still— A coffin-nail — my ..."
2. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. by Charles Dickens (1858)
"I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece
of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the ..."
3. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"A variant prescription directs the part to be touched with a coffin-nail, which
is then to be driven over its head into the tree by the sufferer, ..."
4. Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms by Dwight Edwards Marvin (1916)
"I might have been inclined myself to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece
of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... sir, as a door-nail, or a coffin- nail, or ony ither kind o' nail. NORTH.
Was it in battle, James ? ..."
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