smokestack

The term stack is applied to a brick or stone chimney, and to the funnel or furnace chimney rising above the deck of a ve el. The locomotive. 3. The act of drawing in and puffing out the term is also sometimes applied to the chimney of a fumes of burning tobacco. 4. A cigar. ( Slang .) *5. A chimney. "Dublin hath Houses of more than one Smoak ."-Petty: Polit . Survey of Ireland, p. 9. II. Fig .: Something light, inconsiderable, or unimportant; idle talk; mere words; vanity, empt i ne . "This helple smoke of words." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece, 1,027. Like smoke : Very rapidly. ( Slang .) smoke-arch, s . Steam Eng.: The smoke-box of a locomotive. smoke-ball, s. Ordn.: A paper shell filled with a composition which, when ignited, emits volumes of smoke. Smoke-balls are thrown into military mines to suffocate working parties, or into forts to cover an advance. They have also been used as signals. smoke-bell, s . A gla bell suspended over a gas-light, to intercept the smoke and prevent its blackening the ceiling immediately over the jet.