Smokehole

Quick meaning: Smokehole is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

Drifting sparks floated up and out of the smokehole.

A splash of white on the floor came from the high moon, which was peering down through the smoke-hole in the roof.

Each of the large houses was the home of several families. The door and the smoke-hole were common to all, but each family had its own fire with its own things round it.

Wind and rain fought it out on Cladich brae, and when it was not the wind that came bold through the smoke-hole in the roof, ’twas the rain, a beady slant that hissed on the peats like roasting herrings.

Word Forms

• smokeholes

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