stemmeryn.
/ˈstɛməri/ (See quot. 1859.)
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place where tobacco is stored or processed > [noun]
tobacco house1611
prise house1732
stemmery1859
seasoning room1890
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 450 Stemmery, a large building in which tobacco is stemmed, that is, in which the thin part of the leaf is stripped from the fibrous veins that run through it.
1897 Killebrew & Myrick Tobacco Leaf 283 The work in the stemmeries goes on from November..until June.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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