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ˈsmoke-jack
[smoke n.]
1. An apparatus for turning a roasting-spit, fixed in a chimney and set in motion by the current of air passing up this.
1675Evelyn Let. in Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719), The Smoke-Jack in my Brother's Kitchen-Chimney; which has been there, I have heard, near a hundred Years. 1754Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1861) 301, I think I will have a smoke-jack; the man says he will..keep it in order for nothing. 1777in Crts. Europe at Close of Last Cent. (1841) I. 180 Did you never see a smoke-jack, with a little man in red working away, and seemingly turning the wheel? 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. iv. (ed. 3) 36 The common smoke⁓jack is an instrument in which the velocity communicated is too great for the purpose required. 1884Jefferies Red Deer ix. 172 In how few, even of the most ancient houses, are smoke-jacks still at work!
attrib.1758Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 VI. 536 This property of chimneys might, by means of smokejack vanes, be applied to some mechanical purposes.
†b. transf. The head, as the seat of confused ideas. Obs.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xx, As for my uncle Toby, his smoak-jack had not made a dozen revolutions, before he fell asleep also. 1808E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 54 That part of the human frame which, in rational mortals, is denominated the Seat of reason; in others, a Smoke-jack.
2. U.S. A cowl or hood for the end of a railway-carriage stove-pipe (Cent. Dict. 1891).
3. A cargo-steamer.
1892Daily News 3 Feb. 5/5 It may do for a ‘smoke-jack’ to lay off and wait for the fog, but not for a passenger ship with mails.
4. A smoke-nuisance inspector.
1898Daily News 21 Nov. 8/6 The officer who carried out this duty was called a Smoke Jack. |