smoke-jackn.

Etymology: smoke n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsmoke-jack.

a. An apparatus for turning a roasting-spit, fixed in a chimney and set in motion by the current of air passing up this.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > roasting-jack

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1676 J. Evelyn Let. 8 Feb. in J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. sig. A6^v The Smoke-Jack in my Brother's Kitchen-Chimney; which has been there, I have heard, near a hundred Years.

1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) 301 I think I will have a smoke-jack; the man says he will..keep it in order for nothing.

1777 in 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?

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. iv. 27 The common smoke-jack is an instrument in which the velocity communicated is too great for the purpose required.

1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer ix. 172 In how few, even of the most ancient houses, are smoke-jacks still at work!

attributive.1758 B. Franklin Let. 2 Dec. in Wks. (1838) VI. 536 This property of chimneys might, by means of smokejack vanes, be applied to some mechanical purposes.

†b. transferred. The head, as the seat of confused ideas. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] > as seat of mind > confused ideas

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1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 83 As for my uncle Toby, his smoak-jack had not made a dozen revolutions, before he fell asleep also.

1808 E. 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.

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2. U.S. A cowl or hood for the end of a railway-carriage stovepipe ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

3. A cargo-steamer.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > cargo-steamer

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > of other construction or rig

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1892 Daily 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.

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1898 Daily News 21 Nov. 8/6 The officer who carried out this duty was called a Smoke Jack.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	smoke-jack
释义	smoke-jackn. Etymology: smoke n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsmoke-jack. 1. a. An apparatus for turning a roasting-spit, fixed in a chimney and set in motion by the current of air passing up this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > roasting-jack wheeler dog1379 Jack1391 spit-turner?a1500 turnspit1606 hanging jack1660 turnspit-jack1674 smoke-jack1676 roasting-jack1698 water-jack1807 bottle jack1810 spit-jack1967 1676 J. Evelyn Let. 8 Feb. in J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. sig. A6^v The Smoke-Jack in my Brother's Kitchen-Chimney; which has been there, I have heard, near a hundred Years. 1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) 301 I think I will have a smoke-jack; the man says he will..keep it in order for nothing. 1777 in 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? 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. iv. 27 The common smoke-jack is an instrument in which the velocity communicated is too great for the purpose required. 1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer ix. 172 In how few, even of the most ancient houses, are smoke-jacks still at work! attributive.1758 B. Franklin Let. 2 Dec. in Wks. (1838) VI. 536 This property of chimneys might, by means of smokejack vanes, be applied to some mechanical purposes. †b. transferred. The head, as the seat of confused ideas. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] > as seat of mind > confused ideas smoke-jack1761 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xx. 83 As for my uncle Toby, his smoak-jack had not made a dozen revolutions, before he fell asleep also. 1808 E. 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. Categories » 2. U.S. A cowl or hood for the end of a railway-carriage stovepipe ( Cent. Dict. 1891). 3. A cargo-steamer. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > cargo-steamer packet steamer1842 puffer1849 smoke-jack1892 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > of other construction or rig buss?a1400 fly-boat1583 caramoussal1587 penteconter1784 galliot1794 puffer1849 billyboy1855 York boat1864 smoke-jack1892 Panamax1972 1892 Daily 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. ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 21 Nov. 8/6 The officer who carried out this duty was called a Smoke Jack. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1676
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