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smokestacks

smokestacks is the plural of smokestack.

Meaning of smokestack

Noun

smokestack (plural smokestacks)

  1. A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out, as on a steam locomotive, ship, factory, or power plant using fossil fuels.
    • With its long tapered cowcatcher, massive headlamp and enormous diamond smokestack behind, wagon-top boiler, high running-plate above the driving-wheels reached from a front door in the square side-window cab, cylinders with slide valves mounted on top, and double bogie tender, General in its...1942 February, “Notes and News: An Historic American Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 56

Questions about smokestacks

What is smokestacks the plural of?
Smokestacks is the plural of smokestack.

Words near smokestacks in the dictionary

  1. smokesploitation
  2. smokest
  3. smokestack
  4. smokestack industries
  5. smokestack industry
  6. smokestacks
  7. smoketh
  8. smoketight
  9. smoketree
  10. smoketrees
  11. smokewood

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