cavendish

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
3. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in Canada:
4. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in Canada:
5. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in Canada:
6. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in Canada:
7. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
8. (countable, uncountable)A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
9. (countable, uncountable)A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

noun

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

   “Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.”

2. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”).
3. (uncountable)Leaf 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.”

   “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." "”

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

   “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.”

   “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."”