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smoke-hole

smoke-hole is the alternative form of smokehole.

Meaning of smokehole

Noun

smokehole (plural smokeholes)

  1. A hole in the top of a building, especially a basic building or structure such as a tipi or yurt, through which smoke can exit.
    • The ovens they now build are well vaulted, with vent-holes on the sides, just underneath the roof, and a chimney closed at top, having a smoke-hole on each side. Through these smoke-holes no spark can get, so as to set fire to the straw spread about it, and the whole kiln is thus preserved from...1788, John Trusler, “Travels through Siberia and Tartary”, in The Habitable World Described, volume 3, London, page 181

Forms of smoke-hole

pluralsmoke-holes

Questions about smoke-hole

What is smoke-hole the alternative form of?
Smoke-hole is the alternative form of smokehole.

Words near smoke-hole in the dictionary

  1. smoke-eaters
  2. smoke-filled
  3. smoke-filled room
  4. smoke-filled rooms
  5. smoke-free
  6. smoke-hole
  7. smoke-holes
  8. smoke-in
  9. smoke-ins
  10. smoke-o
  11. smoke-oh

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