Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A smoking-room; a place in which to smoke.
- noun A place in which opium is smoked; an opium-joint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A facility for
smoking food, typically fish and meat, especially in commercial scale.
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Examples
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We talked over old times and the changes, and followed each other up to date with a great deal of mutual enjoyment, until the porter demanded the "smokery" for his bunk.
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After washing, he stepped to the door of the "smokery," struck a match on the leg of his pants, held both hands around the end of his cigar while he lighted it, then waving the match to put it out, he threw it down and came in.
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But I want it to be a smokery, pointer to some unknown Dorset speciality.
Wessex Interlude 2 Peter Ashley 2008
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And then maybe a smokery of some kind, reminiscent as it is of the little brick structures with their terracotta chimneys out on the Dungeness peninsular.
Wessex Interlude 2 Peter Ashley 2008
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All of the pseudo-science crack-smokery presented at that conferrence has been thoroughly debunked elsewhere.
Report on the 2005 Mega Creation Conference, Part Two - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Well, one-third of the space in the middle is to be the hall -- our drawing-room, dining-room, library, snuggery, smokery, public-room, etcetera, all in one.
The Big Otter 1859
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Today, his smokery supplies restaurants including Viajante in
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2011
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Ole-Martin Hansen has run his own smokery out of a back alley in Stoke Newington for a year, and talks proudly of building up a family business, not growing too fast.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2011
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He leaves me in no doubt that running your own smokery is terrifically hard work he's up at 4am three times a week but it's worth it.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2011
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Amazing what you can find at the end of your street: a Norwegian smokery; a teenager breeding Chinese painted quails; a reformed drug- smuggler making 75 different types of sausage.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2011
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