smoke jack

English

Alternative forms

smokejack, smoke-jack

Noun

smoke jack (plural smoke jacks)

  1. A roasting jack powered by hot gas rising from a fire.
    • 1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:
      Minute recurrent sounds prevailed — the click of the smoke-jack, the flap of the flames, and the light touches of the women's slippers upon the floor.
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