smokejack
Noun
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Noun
smokejack (plural smokejacks)
- A device for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
- 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.
- 1871 Thomas Hardy "Desperate Remedies"
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