Smokestack

Quick meaning: Smokestack is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

Example Sentences

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 present form is typical of much earlier American locomotive practice.

Word Forms

• smokestacks

Synonyms for smokestack

Depending on context, synonyms include stack.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stack, smokebox, smokehole, steamway, smokehouse, stokehole.

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