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smokestack
/ ˈsməʊkˌstæk /
noun
- a tall chimney that conveys smoke into the air Sometimes shortened tostack
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Word History and Origins
Origin of smokestack1
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Example Sentences
Americans learned to look at a smokestack and see dying trees and fish downwind.
Poison comes out of a smokestack and, downwind, birds fall from the sky.
You seem to be finding a great deal to interest you in that smokestack, young man!
Railroads cause fires by their locomotives sending out sparks through the smokestack or dropping hot ashes along the right-of-way.
Sampson had called his sleeping companion, and already the black smoke began to pour out of the smokestack.
Immediately the boat listed and threw him away from the window, after which he sought a place of safety behind the smokestack.
Soon after, a heavy roll of the vessel broke the smokestack, and it was pitched overboard.
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