smoke jack
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]smoke jack (plural smoke jacks)
- 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.