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smoke-signalling

smoke-signalling is the present participle and gerund of smoke-signal.

Meaning of smoke-signal

Verb

smoke-signal (third-person singular simple present smoke-signals, present participle smoke-signalling, simple past and past participle smoke-signalled)

  1. To use smoke signals.
  2. To inform or indicate by smoke signal.
    • ‘His approach was smoke-signalled, the leper collected his mates and they took to the rocks, camping in caves up in the heads of gorges.’1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 261

Questions about smoke-signalling

What is smoke-signalling the present participle and gerund of?
Smoke-signalling is the present participle and gerund of smoke-signal.

Words near smoke-signalling in the dictionary

  1. smoke-screens
  2. smoke-shade
  3. smoke-shades
  4. smoke-signal
  5. smoke-signalled
  6. smoke-signalling
  7. smoke-signals
  8. smoke-talk
  9. smoke-talks
  10. smoke-wagon
  11. smoke-wagons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smoke-signalling (page history and authors); smoke-signal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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