v. [SMOKE sb. 1: cf. prec.]
1. trans. To dry or cure (meat, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke.
1704. Dict. Rust., s.v. Chesnut, It is best to beat the Fruit down from the Tree,… or if you don’t, you must Smoke-dry ’em.
1796. Stedman, Surinam, II. xx. 111. They even took out the jaw-bones, which they smoke-dried.
1843. Bethune, Scott. Peasant’s Fire-side, 62. He even spoke of having an old woman … hung up in the chimney, and smoke-drying her for three weeks.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XX. 174/2. Boiled, smoke-dried, and packed in bags.
2. intr. To become dried by the action of smoke. In quot. transf.
1855. Smedley, H. Coverdale, ii. You’ve been smoke-drying in London … till you’re out of condition.
Hence Smoke-drying vbl. sb.
1811. Miss L. M. Hawkins, C’tess & Gertr., I. 265. The discipline of a smoke-drying in one of the closest streets of the city.
