Bullet Cutter

Glossary

A type of punch cutter (see photo) used to open the closed head of a cigar before smoking. It creates a circular opening.

The term for a large pile of tobacco, arranged for fermentation. Pilónes can be enormous, weighing 3,500 or even 4,000 pounds or more. …

Also known as a wedge cutter or a cat’s eye cutter, a v cutter has a v-shaped blade (see photo) that gauges an opening in the head of a …

Tobacco that has been topped, or removed of its flower, seeds, and sometimes the entire upper portion of a tobacco plant. This causes the …