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
   • Seeing the serious turn matters were likely to take, he resolved not to await the trial, but flew up the smoke-hole, and when at the top he cried out that things would have gone very differently with them had it not been for the arrival of their guests.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 393