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Definition of Smokejack
1. n. A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
Definition of Smokejack
1. Noun. A device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smokejack
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokejack
Literary usage of Smokejack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The sketch book by Washington Irving (1901)
"Hams, tongues, and flitches of bacon were suspended from the ceiling; a smokejack
made its 15 ceaseless clanking beside the fireplace, and a clock ticked in ..."
2. The sketch book by Washington Irving (1901)
"226 14 smokejack, a contrivance for turning a spit. 226 27 Poor Robin. The Poor
Robin's Almanacs were begun in :66i or 1662. They probably originated with ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"To carry off the smoke, especially when new fires are being started, each engine
stands with its smokestack under a smokejack or hood, which extends through ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"Motion or action is no more inherent in a verbal root than a meat-roasting quality
is inherent in a smokejack, or the power of forging a horseshoe in a ..."
5. Leading American Inventors by George Iles (1912)
"... axis passing nearly in a horizontal direction through the stem of the boat,
are fixed a number of arms with wings like those of a windmill or smokejack. ..."
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