or smoke-shell, subs. (common).—1. A chamber-pot: see IT.
2. (B. E.).—‘A Vessel to Blind the Enemies, to make way for the Machine to play.
3. (colloquial).—A smoking-carriage: see SMOKE 3. Also 4. (old) = a tobacconist (B. E. and GROSE).
5. (old).—See quot.
1847. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. SMOKER. At Preston, before the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, every person who had a cottage with a chimney and used the latter, had a vote, and was called a SMOKER.
