cheroots

Noun

cheroot (plural cheroots)

1. A cigar with square-cut ends.
   • The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use...1810, Thomas Williamson, The East India Vade-Mecum, volume I, London: Black, Parry & Kingsbury, page 499