Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apparatus for consuming or burning all the smoke from a fire.
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Examples
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He had hoped to enter his chosen field with some financial backing, and to that end, when the desire to try his hand at literature had struck him, he had bought an interest in a smoke-consumer which a fireman on another tugboat had patented.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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I have recently noted the invention of important improvements in the hand loom universally used in Japan, also a "smoke-consumer" which not only abolishes the smoke, but reduces the amount of coal used and consequently the expense.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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The gentleman who has the smoke-consumer, the gentleman who deals in shrubbery, the gentleman who advocates lightning rods, and the other gentlemen who represent the tantamount interests of lawn statuary, fancy poultry, patent paving, etc., etc., etc.
The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872
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