smoke jack

noun

smoke jack

noun

1

A roasting jack powered by hot gas rising from a fire.

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.1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:

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