Cigar Definitions - It's a Cigar Dictionary with Pictures!

Online Dictionary with Definitions and a Glossary of Terms for Cigars

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A. M. S. - American Market Selection A designation for the light and mild wrappers, Claro Claro, ... Aging The period during which newly completed cigars rest in humidity ... Air Curing The process of hanging freshly picked tobacco leaves in open ... Aroma A cigar's smell when it is burning. Bouquet is the ... Bales After tobacco leaves have finished fermenting, they are packed in a ... Band The paper ring around each cigar that decoratively identifies the ... Barrel The shaft of the cigar. Also called the body or ... Biddies A small East Indian cigar. ... Binder The tobacco leaf wrapped around the filler, holding the core ... Blend The combination of tobacco leaves chosen for each cigar. A ... Body The relative strength or body of your cigar means whether ... Booking Folding the filler leaves in a cigar's bunch the way ... Box Pressed Certain cigars are pressed so tightly into a box that ... Buckeye A small, generally family owned, cigar making company. ... Bulks The tall stacks of tobacco piled high so that fermentation ... Bunch During cigar making, the leaves that make up the filler ... Bunchbreaker or Buncher The person in a cigar factory who takes the filler ... Bundled Cigars Sometimes cigars are sold in bundles of 10 or 25, ... Cap The piece of tobacco laid over the head of a ... Casing A process of spraying tobacco after it has been dried. ... Cedar Cedar can impart a delicate and pleasing woody flavor to ... Chavetta (or Tuck) A specialized crescent-shaped knife that is one of the cigar ... Cheroot A small cigar. A century ago, cheroots were often smoked ... Cigar Bar A place with comfortable seating and/or tables where you can ... Cigarillo A "small cigar" generally not much bigger than a cigarette. ... Clear Havana An all-Havana cigar. ... Climate A critical part of growing good cigar leaf. Even slight ... Criollos The Criollo (cre-yo-yo) seed is rich in the history of ... Culebra A three-in-one twisted cigar. Actuall, three cork-screw shaped cigars bound ... Curly Head The little ponytail-like twisted end of tobacco on the head ... Cutter A device used to remove or puncture the cap of ... Debudding The process of nipping off the flower buds that sprout ... Demitasse A small size cigar usually 4 inches long with a ... Dry Cigars Called dry or "Dutch-type" by Americans, these small cigars need ... E.M.S. English Market Selection. In days past, the British and Americans ... Fermentation The process during which cigar tobacco, through self-generated heat, gives ... Figuardo A cigar that is not a straight-sided cylinder such as ...Filler The blend of tobacco in the center of the cigar ... Finished Head The head of a cigar that has been formed by ... Flathead A cigar whose head is not rounded, but flat. ... Foot The end of the cigar that is lit. Also called ...

Galera The large factory room where the cigars are rolled. ... Guillotine A cigar cutter that works like its namesake. The handheld ... Hand A group of about 20 tobacco leaves that are tied ... Handmade A cigar that has been bunched and rolled completely by ... Handrolled A cigar whose wrapper has been added by hand, but ... Head The end of the cigar that is clipped and put ... Heat Curing Accelerating the natural drying process of tobacco using heat. Homongenized Tobacco Leaf (HTL) A tobacco product that is used for binder and ... Humidor An airtight box, usually of wood, with a humidifying element ... Hygrometer An instrument that measures relative humidity, In regards to cigars, ... Long Filler The filler in premium cigars, long enough to fill the ... Machine-Made Cigar A cigar made primarily by a machine. The filler in ... Maduro Portuguese for old or mature. Ripe in Spanish. A wrapper ... Marble Head A round-headed cigar. ... Marrying Different tobaccos in a cigar are said to "marry" when ... Mass-Market Cigar A reference to all low priced cigars manufactured by machine Naked Cigar A cigar without a band. ... Nicotine This chemical, in it's pure state, is colorless and highly ... Notch Cutter A cigar cutter that createsa V-shaped opening in the head. ... Oscuro A black shade of wrapper, darker than maduro. ... Pinch Test An easy way to check the construction of your cigar ... Plug An obstruction in the cigar, caused by tightness in the ... Plume A white or light grayish-green dusting on a cigar's wrapper, ... Premium Cigar Any high-grade cigar mader by hand of 100% tobacco with ... Puro Spanish for pure, the term refers to a cigar whose ... Ring Gauge A measurement for the diameter of a cigar divided into ... Robusto A short fat cigar popular for its short time to ... Roller The person who applies the wrapper leaf to the bunch ... Scrap Filler Left over tobacco cuttings used as filler for inexpensive cigars. ... Seconds Cigars that are rejected by manufacturers for a variety of ... Shade Leaf Tobacco grown under a canopy of cheese-cloth or mesh to ... Short Filler Not the same as scrap filler, short filler is made ... Smoker Broadly defined, a cigar smoking event. This can be an ... Stogie Slang for cigar, often inexpensive. Invented in 1827 and smoked ... Tooth Tiny, gritty bumps that are part of the natural texture ... Torcedor The Cuban term for master cigar roller. ... Tuck Also called the foot of the cigar. The end that ... Wrapper The outer leaf rolled around the binder. Wrapper is the ...