[SMOKE sb.]
† 1. A dwelling-house. Obs.–1
1672. Petty, Pol. Surv. Irel. (1719), 9. The simple Smoak-houses are … 184,000.
2. A room in a tannery, heated by smoldering spent tan, where hides are unhaired.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVIII. 306/2. The stoutest and heaviest ox hides … are then hung on poles, in a close room called a smoke-house, in which is kept a smouldering fire of wet tan. [So in Ure, Dict. Arts (1839), 764, Penny Cycl. (1842), XXIV. 37.]
1837. Hebert, Engin. & Mech. Encycl., II. 60. In some places, the hides were formerly piled wet one upon another … (or otherwise kept warm in what was called a smoke-house).
3. A house or room used for curing meat, fish, etc., by means of smoke.
1856. Mayne Reid, Hunters’ Feast, xiv. 111. A part of the bacon furnishes the ‘smoke-house’ for home consumption during the winter.
1894. J. R. Carrington, in Outing, XXIV. 201/1. A rusty key that probably belonged to some smoke-house of long ago.
attrib. 1901. Cable, Cavalier, liii. 252. The servants were loading the smokehouse meat into a wagon to hide it in the woods.
