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noun

Smoker n.

1.

One who dries or preserves by smoke.

2.

One who smokes tobacco or the like.

3.

A smoking car or compartment, such as a car on a train where smoking is allowed. (U. S.)

4.

A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. (Obsolescent.) "That evening A Company had a "smoker" in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp."

5.

An amateurish pornographic movie. (Colloq.)

black smoker, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers.

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Etymology of 'Smoker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smoker" Quotes from Famous Books

... a smoker, chanced to have in his pocket a box of allumettes. After several ineffectual essays, he succeeded in igniting one against the dank wall, and by its momentary glare perceived that the candle had been left ...

— A Struggle For Life • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... was Little Billy's rubber tobacco-pouch. He fingered it apprehensively, staring about him. Why was Little Billy's pouch abandoned there on the capstan-head, this pocket companion of an inveterate smoker? Why, Little Billy must be near by! ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

... firing into the hayloft. Upon the table lay a battered spy-glass, minus lenses, and, nearby, two boxes, one containing dried corn-silk, the other hayseed, convenient for the making of amateur cigarettes; the smoker's outfit being completed by a neat pile of rectangular clippings from newspapers. On the shelves of the whatnot were some fragments of a dead pie, the relics of a "Fifteen-Puzzle," a pink Easter-egg, four seashells, a tambourine with part of a girl's ...

— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington

... came to Mark's ears, as, unable to restrain his curiosity, the lad raised his head slightly and peered over again to see the lamp opened and the glare of light fall on the thin, sharp features of the smoker, as he drew the flame into the bowl of his pipe till the tobacco was glowing. Then the lantern was closed again with a snap, and the light was softened to a faint glow, shining on the binnacle and the ...

— The Black Bar • George Manville Fenn

... clothes had in reality cost more. Wilbur watched his wife as she talked sweetly with the other woman, and his heart swelled with the pride of possession. When they were on the train and he sat by himself in the smoker, having left Margaret with Mrs. Sturtevant, his heart continued to feel warm with elation. He waited to assist his wife off the train at Jersey City and realised it a trial that he could not cross the river on the same ferry. Margaret despised ...

— The Butterfly House • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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