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Definition of Smoke out
1. Verb. Drive out with smoke. "Smoke out the bees"
Definition of Smoke out
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to drive out using smoke ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) to expose ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smoke Out
Literary usage of Smoke out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... with a base on which to stand it when not in use, and fitting over it a high
conical cover in which are perforations to let the smoke out. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"When the first shot fired I looked and saw Add fighting smoke out of his face.
... I knocked the smoke out of my face, and when he made his next shot and ..."
3. Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament by John Wesley (1850)
"And he opened the bottomless pit, and there ascended a smoke out of the pit, as
the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun 3 and the air were darkened by the ..."
4. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire Job 41:20i 12 ). Out of his
nostrils goeth smoke, Ps. 18: 8(!)). There went up a smoke out of his nos- ..."
5. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as
the smoke of a great furnace ; and the sun and the air were darkened by ..."
6. Bon-mots of Charles Lamb and Douglas Jerrold by Charles Lamb, Douglas William Jerrold (1893)
"fain that he should smoke out of doors, nor taint with 'bacco-smoke the tapestry.
... smoke out ..."
7. The Heel of War by George Brinton McClellan (1916)
"Houses were fired in order to smoke out the "snipers." Cathedral amd art treasures
saved from fire by German soldiers. Stagnation of Antwerp. ..."
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