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Definition of Smokejacks
1. smokejack [n] - See also: smokejack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokejacks
Literary usage of Smokejacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1824)
"... given to mechanical inventions—constructing patent smokejacks—carts that went
before the horses—and especially erecting windmills, for which machines he ..."
2. Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland, from Queen Anne's Accession to by George Lockhardt (1824)
"... and traditions do affirm that he was much given to mechanical inventions—constructing
patent smokejacks—carts that went before the horses—and especially ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"To avoid a nuisance, the smokejacks may be connected to a flue served by an
exhaust fan and led to a tall chimney or to a series of water-filled ..."
4. Railroad Construction: Theory and Practice; a Text-book for the Use of by Walter Loring Webb (1922)
"smokejacks. Locomotives leave an engine house under their own steam, which requires
starting their fires considerably beforehand, and the smoke must be ..."
5. Railroad Construction: : Theory and Practice : a Text-book for the Use of by Walter Loring Webb (1917)
"The air passes out of the building through annular openings around the smokejacks,
and also through openings between the wall plates and the roof rafters. ..."
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