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ˈsmoke-stack
[smoke n.]
1. Chiefly U.S.
a. The funnel of a steam-boat.
1859Harper's Mag. Apr. 606/1 The hoarse breath of the smoke stacks..came from the rosin-fed furnaces. 1862Russell Diary North & S. I. 166 The funnel, Yankeeicé smoke stack. 1864Daily Telegr. 30 Aug., The Tennessee..surrendered, her rudder disabled, her smokestack carried away. 1903[see salt-caked adj. s.v. salt n.1 12 b]. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. ix. 70 All tugs had smoke-stacks that could be tilted flat when the craft passed under a bridge. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 7 Aug. 7/6 Her smokestacks are lowered..so she can get under some bridges.
b. The chimney of a locomotive.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2227/1. 1890 Daily News 22 Sept. 5/5 The locomotive's smokestack was just out of the water.
2. The chimney of a stove; a chimney-stack.
1859Cairo City (Illinois) Gaz. 8 July 3/1 A number of mischievous boys,..lighting a bunch of fire crackers,..threw them into the smoke stack. 1871Daily News 9 Feb., Carrying the smoke-stack of a stove through the aperture. 1903Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 7/1 The brick smoke-stack of the stoke-house.
Add:3. Special Comb. smokestack industry orig. U.S., any of the heavy manufacturing industries, typically coal-powered and associated with high levels of pollution and outmoded technology (usu. in pl.); also absol. used attrib., of, pertaining to, or characterized by the smokestack industries, as smokestack city, smokestack economy, etc.
1979Business Week 31 Dec. 118/2 The mostly bedrock, *smokestack industry stocks that make up the Dow held little fascination for investors. 1980N.Y. Times 24 Aug. i. 38/1 Now, with fewer resources to spend..the odds are to go with the winners... ‘The smokestack cities’ face the most problems, Mr. Sternlieb said. 1982in Amer. Speech (1983) LVIII. 179 This is not a smokestack economy as it was 10 years ago. 1983Chicago Sun-Times 21 May 13 The new cliches about the decline of ‘smokestack industries’ have dramatic power when you drive past the miles of cold, quiet stacks along Lake Erie. 1985Sunday Times 4 Aug. 51 Those lorries with gas cylinders, associated with the bygone days of smokestack industries, are also less important. 1988Business Rev. Weekly 8 Apr. 6/2 For the past 10 years or so smokestack industries have been unpopular because they have been seen as pollutors of the environment. |